AI/Transhumanism Archive
Man-made Organisms will be here in Four Months
Daily Mail (2009-08-22) -- Famous biologist Craig Ventner boldly predicts that his team will be able to create a synthetic organism within 4 months time.
dailymail.co.uk
Evidence fir Programmed Reality from Deep Space
NewScientist (2009-08-12) -- Differences in time between photons of various energies travelling great distances may hint at the quantized nature of space.
newscientist.com
Organelle Simulated on Microchip for First Time
Scientific American (2009-07-31) -- Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed the first working artificial prototype of an "organ" of a human cell—the Golgi apparatus."
scientificamerican.com
Artificial Brain within 10 Years?
CNET News (2009-07-24) -- Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, announces his goal to build "a functioning, artificial human brain within the next 10 years."
cnet.com
Japanese Scientists to Create Robotic Insects
PHYSORG (2009-07-14) -- Professors at Tokyo University's Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology aim to create robotic insects.
physorg.com
Computer Recognition of Human Emotions
New Scientist (2009-07-03) -- Computers with Innerscope Research's emotion sensing technology can recognize human emotions like disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and surprise 9 times out of 10.
newscientist.com
Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life.
New York Times (2009-05-13) -- UK chemists create the recipe for life.
nytimes.com
Kepler search for habitable planets begins.
NASA (2009-04-30) -- The Kepler search for habitable planets began officially at 5:01 PM PDT on May 12, 2009.
nasa.com
Could the Internet become self-aware?
New Scientist (2009-04-30) -- AI expert Francis Heylighen thinks that the Internet could become self-aware within 10 years.
newscientist.com
Medical 'microbot' to swim human arteries.
The Journal (2009-04-15) -- More than 40 years later, some of the futuristic potential of "Fantastic Voyage" has taken a step closer to realisation, thanks to a remarkable achievement in miniaturization unveiled last week.
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Robot scientist makes discoveries without human help.
New Scientist (2009-04-02) -- A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries.
newscientist.com
Honda connects brain thoughts with robotics.
Comcast.net (2009-03-31) -- Honda Motor Co. has developed a way to read patterns of electric currents on a person's scalp as well as changes in cerebral blood flow when a person thinks about four simple movements.
comcast.net
Can the Human Lifespan Reach 1,000 Years?
The Daily Galaxy (2009-03-27) -- Various scientists believe that if immortality isn't around the corner, living to 1000 may be possible by some who are alive today.
dailygalaxy.com
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
PhysOrg.com (2009-03-20) -- Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order.
physorg.com
It's Easier to Observe the Failure of Local Realism than Previously Thought.
PhysOrg.com (2009-03-04) -- A team of scientists have now shown that the failure of local realism can be observed at a macroscopic level. More evidence for a grainy, or programmed reality.
physorg.com
Bionic Eye Restores Sight in Blind Man .
BBC (2009-03-04) --
A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light 7 months after being fitted with a bionic eye in London's Moorfield eye hospital.
bbc.co.uk
Adding Touch, Taste, and Smell to Virtual Reality.
Wired (2009-03-04) -- Virtual reality schemes have long tantalized geeks with unrealized visions of holodecks and long-distance cybersex. Now, a group of British researchers want to round out the experience with virtual touch, taste and smell. To simulate the real world, they argue, all five of your senses must be stimulated. Toward that end, they've mocked up a "Virtual Cocoon" with a separate glove that — at least in theory — could tickle your tongue as it, uh, nukes your nose.
wired.com
Particles have Free Will
American Mathematical Society (2009-02) -- Mathematicians John H. Conway (known for being the creator of the game of life) and Simon Kochen have written a paper arguing that elemental particals have free will.
ams.org
Our World may be a Giant Hologram.
New Scientist (2009-01-15) -- GEO600 is a large gravitational wave detector located in Hanover, Germany that has recently been plagued by inexplicable noise or graininess in its measurement results. Some physicists think that the instrument has reached the limits of spacetime resolution and that this might be proof that we live in a hologram.
newscientist.com
Artificial intelligence gets a step closer.
vnunet (2008-10-13) -- Artificial intelligence came another step closer to reality this weekend after a computer came within five per cent of passing the Turing Test which evaluates a system's ability to demonstrate intelligence.
vnunet.com
Emotional robot has empathy, understands your frustration.
Engadget (2008-07-18) -- The Feelix Growing project in Europe is developing software that enables robots to understand how a person is feeling based on their facial expressions.
engadget.com
Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
Technology Review (2008-05) -- Nick Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, explains why it is much better for the future of humanity that life is not found on Mars or elsewhere in the universe.
technologyreview.com
Superhumans Possible via Designer Cloning
Live Science (2008-04-14) -- A recently developed technique that might eventually produce facsimiles of human embryonic stem cells from skin cells has opened up the possibility of creating chimera humans.
livescience.com
Computer Taught to Recognize Attractiveness in Women
Science Daily (2008-04-05) -- Computers have moved beyond simple facial recognition an into the arena of aesthetic judgement, via new software developed by scientists from Tel Aviv University.
sciencedaily.com
Eight tips to dramatically improve your chances of living forever
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2008-04-02) -- The author presents eight ideas to help you live to the point where the process of aging can be overcome (negligible senescence). Most ideas are somewhat common sense (avoid dangerous habits), but putting them in the context of life extension may underscore their importance.
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Virtual pets can learn just like babies
New Scientist (2008-03-28) -- Novamente's virtual pet was presented at the First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence at the University of Memphis in Tennessee earlier this month. Planned to be released in Second Life later this year, the synthetic character, controlled by an AI program, responds to commands like natural pets, but purportedly will be able to be taught to do almost anything.
newscientist.com
First Humanoid Robot That Will Develop Language May Be Coming Soon
ScienceDaily (2008-03-04) -- iCub, a one metre-high baby robot which will be used to study how a robot could quickly pick up language skills, will be available next year. ITALK aims to teach the robot to speak by employing the same methods used by parents to teach their children. Robotics specialists will conduct experiments in human and robot language interaction to enable the robot to converse with humans.
sciencedaily.com
Robots Enter Japan's Daily Life
CNN (2008-03-03) -- For Japan, the robotics revolution is an imperative. With more than a fifth of the population 65 or older, the country is banking on robots to replenish the work force and care for the elderly...
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Killer Military Robots Pose Latest Threat To Humanity, Robotics Expert Warns
ScienceDaily (2008-02-28) -- A robotics expert has issued stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide. He expressed concerns that we are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms race. He will warn that it may not be long before robots become a standard terrorist weapon to replace the suicide bomber.
sciencedaily.com
'V-Frog' Virtual-Reality Frog Dissection Software Offers First True Physical Simulation
ScienceDaily (2008-02-21) -- V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education -- allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection -- has been developed. V-Frog, which operates on a personal computer using a standard mouse, actually simulates nearly unlimited manipulation of specimen tissue. As a result, every dissection is different, reflecting each student's individual work. The software is designed for grades 7 through 12, plus advanced placement biology students.
sciencedaily.com
