Just when you thought the insanity of the modern age could not possibly get any kookier, along comes another billionaire busybody with another billionaire…
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Technological singularity – humans becoming one with computers – will morph us into “super humans” by the year 2029. Fake news? A new science fiction novel? TV show? Nope. It’s a prediction made by Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil. He’s made 147 predictions since the 1990’s, and he has an 86% success rate. [1]
Source: International Business Times
A few of Kurzweil’s predictions that came true:
Over the years of watching and reporting on the GMO issue on this website, one of the things that many brought to my attention…
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You know the popular old song, "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy." I couldn't help but be reminded…
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A recent episode of CBC Radio’s Day 6 featured an interview with David Levy, artificial intelligence expert and author of Love and Sex with Robots. Levy discussed a line of robotic sex dolls to be released in 2017 that can speak and respond to touch. He reaffirmed his 2007 prediction, in his book Love and Sex with Robots, that humans[Read More...]
If you happened to enter a hotel lobby or some other location and encountered this receptionist, would you sense anything peculiar about her? Or would she pass as normal? A humanoid robot ‘receptionist’ recently (a year ago is still ‘recently’ to me) unveiled at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, ‘Nadine‘ is able to function in […]
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Is Becoming ‘Human-Like’ — and That Might Be a Bad Thing
This story was another one that seemed to have attracted a lot of people's attention this past week: an EU parliament committee - a…
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Should robots have "personhood?"
Humans should get used to jobs disappearing.
