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Recent dramatic progress in artificial intelligence (AI) leads us to believe that Ray Kurzweil’s prediction of human level AI by 2029 may be roughly accurate. Even if reality proves to be a bit different, still i […]

I had mixed feelings about the DARPA Robotics Grand Challenge when I first heard about it.    On the one hand, it sounded really cool — making humanoid robots drive cars, climb ladders, use power tools and ca […]

Randomly clicking through Singularity Hub as I do from time to time, I happened on an article by someone named Nathaniel Calhoun, titled “Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional.”

Initially, […]

Imagine we have superhuman artificial intelligence. And let’s assume that it goes well, and doesn’t try to kill us. Turns out, it can solve many of our problems. Then imagine we find an asteroid barreling down on […]

Mind uploading has long been one of the most conceptually vexing transhumanist technology ideas.   The promise is amazing: Liberating the human mind from the flawed, limited human body … freedom to take on various […]

My own career lies mainly in the areas of technology and science.   I focus the bulk of my attention on conceiving and developing new methods of using advanced technology to make our corner of the universe a […]

The barrage of AI scare propaganda increases!

A couple months ago it was Nick Bostrom with his book Superintelligence (a nicely-written, rather academic-ish book arguing at length and with great complication […]

Over the last week or so the tech media has been energetically propagating a quote by Silicon Valley hero Elon Musk, in which he equates AI development with summoning demons:

“With artificial intelligence we […]

Julia Mossbridge, a neuroscientist for whom I have loads of respect, has recently written a blog post that is (in Julia’s warm, friendly way) rather critical of transhumanism...

In a follow-up conversation on a […]

Living in this amazing time that we do, we have the privilege to watch concepts go from futuristic conjecture to everyday reality within our lifespans….

The emergence of sousveillance is a wonderful example […]

Ben Goertzel Dialogues with Lincoln Cannon of the Mormon Transhumanist Association

According to my informal observations, the majority of transhumanists don’t consider themselves affiliated with any traditional […]

The quest to end aging and prolong human life indefinitely has stepped outside the worlds of religion and science fiction, and is now the stuff of serious science. The number of research biologists consciously […]

Hugo de Garis Interviews Ben Goertzel
on AGI, OpenCog, China, and the Future of Intelligence

A couple months after I (Ben Goertzel) interviewed my good friend and sometime research collaborator Hugo de Garis […]

In the wake of a tragedy like the nuclear incidents we’re currently seeing in Japan, one of the questions that rises to the fore is: What can we do to prevent similar problems in the future?

This question […]

An Interview by Ben Goertzel

Francis Heylighen started his career as yet another physicist with a craving to understand the foundations of the universe – the physical and philosophical laws that make […]

In the H+ Magazine context, R. U. Sirius is truly the Man Who Needs No Introduction.   R. U. was the Editor of H+ Magazine from its inception until early this year, and remains a regular contributor — and has […]

One of the earliest incarnations of the contemporary Singularity concept was I.J. Good’s concept of the “intelligence explosion,” articulated in 1965:

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that […]