Poking Fun at Longevity Science
Full of qualifications and afterthoughts and 180 degree reversals, longevity research makes an easy target for satire.
Category: Humor
Paris Hilton on Existential Risks from Artificial Intelligence
Following up on Elon Musk’s recent comments at MIT on the dangers of artificial intelligence, h+ Magazine decided to get together for an interview with another wealthy AI expert, celebrity heiress and DJ Paris Hilton.
Dangerous Comedian Robot Escapes Norwegian Research Lab
Oslo, Norway — A military grade “comedian robot”, the Prankbot 3000, has escaped its black box confinement in a University of Oslo Computational Humor Laboratory. The robot is considered dangerous and readers are cautioned to report any sightings to law enforcement or military authorities at once and are advised not to approach the robot under any circumstances.
The Technological Singularity @ LOSCON 39 with David Brin, Phil Osborn, Vernor Vinge, Mitch Wagner
This is a super panel discussion from last year featuring David Brin, Phil Osborn, Vernor Vinge, and Mitch Wagner. The panel discusses the technological singularity with a live audience at LOSCON 39. The panel drop some pretty interesting ideas and...
Retro VR — a brief review of some 1990s HMDs
With all the excitement about the return of virtual reality, the new Occulus Rift HMD and Google Glass, I thought it might be fun to take a snarky trip down HMD memory lane.
Is the Pigularity Near?
What we’d have, then, is some super-smart pigs jacked into calculators, Mathematica and the Internet, and with the capability to neurally connect to a diversity of sensors and actuators. What happens when their brains start adapting to the hardware that’s been wired into them?
Anthrobotic on Robot Buttcheeks
Once the cackling dies down and one has a few sober thoughts, one will realize that the super-advanced androids and humanoids of the future are in fact going to need buttcheeks.
Human Brain Mapping & Simulation Projects: America Wants Some, Too?
Europe’s billion-Euro science-neuro Human Brain Project, mentioned here amongst machine morality last week, is basically already funded and well underway. Now the colonies over in the new world are getting hip, and they too have in the works a project to map/simulate/make their very own copy of the universe’s greatest known computational artifact: the gelatinous wad of convoluted electrical pudding in your skull.
Today in Science 11 Aug, 2040 by Hashem AL-ghaili
NASA Restablishes Contact with Mars Colony, Third Human Clone, Moon Hotel, First Cryro-preserved Person Revived, Wormhole Created by Scientists, Rover Landing on Gliese 581g
The Cylon Argument
Some of the first cylons were undoubtedly among the scientific and philosophical pioneers of the human race. Yet others excelled in finance, law and social sciences, and they were the ones who led to the cylon related resolutions of UN in ’36, and the later agreements.