Transhumanism and Superheroes
When I tell people I study transhumanism I get three responses: “What?” “Wow!” and “Is that like posthumanism?”
When I tell people I study transhumanism I get three responses: “What?” “Wow!” and “Is that like posthumanism?”
Walking into MIT’s Media Lab is like walking into a digital candy store. On the third floor, you’re greeted by an HD display with “Emotional Weather” (data mined from Twitter using an intelligent agent that shows you the emotional content of tweets on any given topic).
This is a separate question from whether machines can be intelligent, or whether they can act like they feel.