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Science is not magic, no matter what the movies might tell us. It operates under very real, and very palpable constraints. One of these is money. You can’t just recite equations like they’re incantations, and pull change out of the ether. It takes time, and time costs money.

An interesting series of discussions have appeared throughout the blogosphere over the last few days focused on the question of economics in a future dominated by Artificially Intelligence. An article by Kevin Drum in Mother Jones magazine ignited the debate claiming the human race would soon be out of work.

Recent CLIO links on Robots, AI, Cryonics, Genetic Research

This provides a great platform for independent developers or students to test out robotic and future car concepts, machine learning based controllers, and so on.

“The human brain is neurologically advanced and exploits connectivity that is controlled by electrical and chemical signals. My research will create nanowire networks that have the potential to mimic aspects of the neurological functions of the human brain, which may revolutionize the performance of current day computers. It could be truly ground-breaking.”

Two A.I. Scientists agree that a Technological Singularity is coming… and that the super-intelligent machines that they are building will lead us there. However, they disagree on whether humans will survive the coming revolution.

An interview with Hugo Award-winning science fiction icon Vernor Vinge, who’s ideas have done much to further serious discourse around Machine Intelligence and the Singularity.

New software from MIT can now reveal details in videos previously hidden to the human eye.

Nick Bostrom interviewed at AGI 12 by Adam A. Ford

If a person were to query ‘is Watson God?’, then Watson would give an answer based on the understanding of ‘God’ and itself in the collective mind of humans. Would it answer ‘yes’? And if so, could a person debate otherwise?

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