Can Singularity Critics Pass the Turing Test?
The Singularity is not science fiction or a quasi-religious view.
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Video Friday: Anders Sandberg – Eugene the Turing test-beating teenbot reveals more about humans than computers
Anders Sandberg is one of my favorite people in the transhumanist scene Anders. Here he discusses the recent overhyped report of a chatbot passing the Turing Test. Anders is one of the most rigorous thinkers in transhumanism and his paper...
Transcendence vs. Her: Clash of Two Wimpy Future Visions
My friend and sometime collaborator Hugo DeGaris was looking forward to the movie “Transcendence” with great enthusiasm… With its theme of anti-technology terrorists attacking scientists and provoking a sort of war between pro-Singularity and anti-Singularity forces, the movie plot reflects...
IA|AI – The Rise of Intelligence Amplification & Artificial Intelligence
“Intelligence Amplification, either through getting smarter people or having really smart machines – It just seems overwhelmingly likely that this is going to be the dominant economic force once you get 20-30 years out into the future. Virtually no economists are studying it.”
Is Artificial Superintelligence Research Ethical?
Video Interview: Recently I interviewed Roman Yampolskiy, Latvian born computer scientist at the University of Louisville, known for his work on behavioral biometrics, security of cyberworlds and artificial intelligence safety. He holds a PhD from the University at Buffalo (2008). He is currently the director of Cyber Security Laboratory in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering.
Video Interview with Vernor Vinge at Los Con 39
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.
Was LSD a Magic Bullet? The Outlaw Romanticism of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in a New Book
A hope for a (r)evolution in cognitive control and ability is part of the NBIC paradigm that motivated the creation of h+ magazine
Humanity Plus: The New Synthesis
Lately, I love it when people out there in the general population ask me what I do. I tell them that I’m working on a transhumanist webzine and then pause — offering no further explanation — as if a transhumanist magazine were as comprehensible as a magazine about real estate or pet monkeys.
Spring 2009
Spring 2009 Issue: featuring Vinge: Singularity 101, Is the Future Cancelled?, Howard Bloom on Solar Space, Don’t Tase Me RoBro, Hacking the Economy, and more.
About Us
h+ covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing — and will change — human beings in fundamental ways. We will be following developments in areas like NBIC (nano-bio-info-cog), longevity, performance enhancement and self-modification, Virtual Reality, "The Singularity," and other areas that both promise and threaten to radically alter our lives and our view of the world and ourselves.