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Both the ideology behind transhumanism and the concept of a singularity have been hijacked by fans of Ray Kurzweil and similar technology advocates.

“There are a lot of secrets down here in the dark”

New York science investor, Jeffrey Epstein, has backed H+ board member Ben Goertzel’s OpenCog Hong Kong based research group.

Adam Ford interviews AI pioneer Marcus Hutter.

Freerange Vol.8 is looking for articles, ideas, images, stories, illustrations, inventions, or anything else that might contribute to the theme: animals, humans, robots and the borders and boundaries between them.

Adam Ford interviews Tim van Gelder on Intelligence Amplification, Artificial Intelligence, Argument Mapping and Douglas Engelbart’s contributions to computing and user interface design and collective wisdom.

“Intelligence Amplification, either through getting smarter people or having really smart machines – It just seems overwhelmingly likely that this is going to be the dominant economic force once you get 20-30 years out into the future. Virtually no economists are studying it.”

History suggests that superintelligent AI has a better probability of finding ways to accomplish its goals with less violence.

While in Beijing, I conducted video interviews with some of the presenters at AGI-13, the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Central themes: * Probability theory as a key tool in building advanced, rational AGI systems * Mind-body integration as key to human-like intelligence * The importance of integrative design and dynamics in AGI systems […]

Aaron Sloman – Artificial Intelligence – Psychology – Oxford Interview This a transcript of a video, of Aaron Sloman being interviewed by Adam Ford, at the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Winter Conference, St Anne’s College, Oxford University, December 2012. The interview was on 9th December 2012: Adam Ford posed a number of questions to direct […]

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.