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Eddie Germino interviews J Storrs Hall on nanotech, AI and the Singularity.

Aibo, move over.

According an interesting study presented by researcher Sadia Afroz at last edition of Chaos Communication Congress in Germany, the 29C3, up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, a data that is stunning in my opinion. Sadia is member of the The Drexel and George Mason universities research team composed of Aylin Caliskan Islam, Ariel Stolerman, Rachel Greenstadt, and Damon McCoy.

I’ve argued that posthumans would have to be, in some sense of the term, “autonomous entities” capable of operating outside the scope of the socio-technical network I refer to as the Wide Human (Roden 2013). A being is autonomous if it is self-governing. According to the modern practical philosophy that follows Rousseau and Kant, autonomous beings (paradigmatically human beings) are those that can freely determine the principles by which they act and live.

In this paper the authors show that dataset generation can be accelerated using machine learning. . Results are achieved here with the free and available WEKA machine learning toolkit which is a perfect tool for DIY experimentation.

Technology and Future of Medicine course LABMP 590 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Lecture 2: Osmar Zaiane’s Artificial Intelligence lecture from January 15, 2013

How we process and build narratives is vital to our understanding of intelligence and human civilization and yet, it seems, we are increasingly at a loss to understand this web of stories that surrounds us.

Cybernetic immortality – fantasy or scientific problem? I can answer that right away. It is a scientific problem – of approximately the same type as the problem of people going into outer space, which was proposed by Tsiolkovsky at the turn of the 20th century.

Joscha Bach, Ph.D. is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.

We need to stop. Take a deep breath. We need to turn our anger into discriminating intelligence and wisdom before it is too late.

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