MemoirSite | Singularity & Change | Activity http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/ Activity feed for the group, Singularity & Change. Thu, 28 May 2026 02:20:40 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.2 en-US 30 hourly 2 b29018863a2b62a0a55cafdc32020e3e Shahn David joined the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/1164/ Sat, 07 Dec 2013 13:58:49 -0500 0 a1ae84549f43da11a6d5007caa71c7b1 Robin replied to the forum topic Futurists Predictions in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/futurists-predictions/#post-46 Wed, 01 May 2013 18:08:05 -0500 How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain
BY STEVEN LEVY04.25.139:30 AM
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/

Google has always been an artificial intelligence […]

]]> 0 a34f28b129c0e174b570585f51ef1188 Robin posted an update in the group Singularity & Change: The singularity is nearer than we think. http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/620/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:09:17 -0500 The singularity is nearer than we think.

]]> 1 efa4b7e438bd299a2a7a7a4c63576d05 dawnb posted an update in the group Singularity & Change: Every so often, I check news regarding the Princeton […] http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/564/ Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:27:03 -0500 Every so often, I check news regarding the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Project – the lab closed in 2007 but it’s purpose — “to study the potential vulnerability of engineering devices and information processing systems to the anomalous influence of the consciousness of their human operators.” — has been carried on and…[Read more]

]]> 0 587c4b377d8ec452f114e7e3ce616fa6 dawnb replied to the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/science-fiction-and-the-singularity/#post-43 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:36:45 -0500 Thank you for the question re the fact of singularity…it prompted me to look up the term, which I’d thought of only as an infinite point in the gravitational field – there are fascinating results online to the […]

]]> 0 f323a3b9e94ca6da7865c6e9db7c5450 dawnb joined the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/550/ Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:36:45 -0500 0 cc92d631b9a029af1e8d77ab9ca0a77f Robin joined the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/219/ Tue, 08 May 2012 17:10:26 -0500 0 ac2e66c9c7d7f6d40dba9fe2122cb6f7 admin started the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/science-fiction-and-the-singularity/ Mon, 07 May 2012 22:43:12 -0500 What science fiction discusses this fact?

]]> 2 0afce2a008528b5d6d75fbb87fbe7d40 admin replied to the forum topic Human –Robot Love in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/human-robot-love/#post-17 Mon, 07 May 2012 22:41:21 -0500 Testing the system here..

]]> 0 626a3653e389d7ede19307d585ce9378 Hrodpert posted on the forum topic Human –Robot Love in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/human-robot-love/#post-16 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:05:32 -0500 “In the PK Dick tale the android knows (underlined) its an android” But the special one, ‘Rachel’ had memory implants and thought she was a human complete with childhood memories. “She doesn’t know?” “She’s beginning to suspect, I think” “How can it not know what it is?” “Commerce is our business here, ‘More human than […]

]]> 0 c4d55753284430cb313cfbbab33fff61 Hrodpert posted an update in the group Singularity & Change: IBM announced that they are designing the computer chips […] http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/130/ Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:56:41 -0500 IBM announced that they are designing the computer chips that are found in all those science-fiction movies where the machines take over the world and enslave human beings.

One IBMer was quoted as saying, “When I saw the movie Terminator as a kid, I thought to myself: ‘I want to be the one that throws to switch on SkyNet to enslave all mankind!’…[Read more]

]]> 0 f412694c2aff8fb830a1b3e40d1653dc Jerome posted on the forum topic Human –Robot Love in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/human-robot-love/#post-15 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:17:25 -0500 Hello Hrod — Ray Kurzweil posits that this melding will provide immortality (ie part replacements forever) to humans and what? empathy (or humanity) to robots. In the PK Dick tale the android knows (underlined) its an android… in Kurzweil’s situation it’s hard to know what the hybrid would be called unless the anticedent entity might […]

]]> 0 8a108e7a9a1ac591b54b55084c7ca888 Jerome posted on the forum topic Human –Robot Love in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/human-robot-love/#post-14 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:17:23 -0500 Hello Hrod — Ray Kurzweil posits that this melding will provide immortality (ie part replacements forever) to humans and what? empathy (or humanity) to robots. In the PK Dick tale the android knows (underlined) its an android… in Kurzweil’s situation it’s hard to know what the hybrid would be called unless the anticedent entity might […]

]]> 0 f4035f65a519bb86bcdab4377851c47c Hrodpert posted on the forum topic Human –Robot Love in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/human-robot-love/#post-13 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:00:31 -0500 This was one of the key themes of the movie Blade Runner, based on the Philip K Dick book ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’. The movie played up the notion of love developing in the androids, and the question of what is it to he human. One unaswered question from the movie is about […]

]]> 0 db4b2f7d8ff52689e912426614401174 admin posted an update in the group Singularity & Change: Hi Jerome. This is great stuff you are posting! Thank you. http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/77/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:26:02 -0500 Hi Jerome. This is great stuff you are posting! Thank you.

]]> 0 a826a9dd3e60d6c37ddd711124f31212 Jerome joined the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/75/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:10:56 -0500 0 3e4178dfd1dd10b307468080ddf6bf97 Jerome started the forum topic Human –Robot Love in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/human-robot-love/ Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:58:48 -0500 As we approach parity between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence we must consider the need for an emotional linkage to achieve a complete melding of human and machine.

]]> 1 38b554b6e818770fa7b6feaf26f8ae24 Jerome started the forum topic Futurists Predictions in the group Singularity & Change http://memoirsite.com/groups/singularity/forum/topic/futurists-predictions/ Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:34:38 -0500 Futurists, including Ray Kurzweil, predict that by 2045 bionic elements will have blurred the distinction between man and machine to the point that mankind will have become immortal and that the machines will have become humanized. Microchips no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence will be available for implantation in human […]

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