tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58438082011-07-06T15:56:04.246-07:00The SingularityPonderings on the coming changeRossnoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-7705292565488730412011-06-17T13:54:00.001-07:002011-06-17T13:54:56.757-07:00Here's a little piece of the puzzle falling into place. The NYTimes article explains how memory functions are being reinforced blocked or replayed in a rat.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-41357242464421357802009-03-16T19:59:00.000-07:002009-03-16T20:01:22.806-07:00Progress Continues - today news agencies all over the planet carried details about a new robotic girl that is probably the most lifelike ambulatory robot yet. It's getting pretty scary, but there's still a long way to go. This one isn't armed at least.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-30138606639372492142008-06-22T10:09:00.000-07:002008-06-22T10:27:23.242-07:00Checked again - no robots on my lawn. But I've seen some fun and somehow scary stuff lately.Saw some stuff recently of Asimo jogging around a gymnasium. That's looking pretty spooky. I couldn't help but imagine 'him' carrying an AK47 and it gave me some shivers for a minute. But that's silly. Everyone knows the automatic weapon would be built in and he wouldn't have to carry it!Also, youtube Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-32978226992159067822007-09-20T12:37:00.000-07:002007-09-20T12:41:50.347-07:00Just looking out the window, and everything looks normal.I see Intel has announced some 45nm devices, so things are getting smaller and lower power, that's an increment.I see a lot of chatter suddenly about distributed sensor systems and associated management of them, including vital signs monitoring. Of course this is 5 years after my start-up attempt in that space. More increments towards the Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1171418171474345592007-02-13T17:55:00.000-08:002007-02-13T17:56:11.476-08:00Holy crap! My house is overrun with robots! Somebody call the... Oh wait, that was just my wife coming home. Scratch that. Still nothing.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1171418123868009142006-11-02T15:46:00.000-08:002007-02-13T17:55:23.870-08:00Still waiting.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1171417629219788742006-06-19T17:46:00.000-07:002007-02-13T17:47:09.220-08:00Still nothing. Go back about your business. I'll let you know if anything happens.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1171417562543766312005-12-08T17:44:00.000-08:002007-02-13T17:46:02.543-08:00Well 2005 is over and still no singularity.Wait... what was that. Oh, hang on, it was just our cat. Never mind. Nothing happened. We're all still human and there's no titanium clad overlords in my neighbourhood anyway. Although that iPod is looking rather smug.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1122496474234171312005-07-27T13:31:00.000-07:002005-07-27T13:34:34.240-07:00Androids in JapanJapan is kicking some serious butt in the Robotics area, particularly in the humanoid direction. This reportoutlines an interesting humanoid robot named "Repliee Q1" at Osaka University in Japan.They are using an air compressor to control the movement of the android. All it can do currently is sit.This is how it starts.Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1122324926231227172005-07-25T13:46:00.000-07:002005-07-25T13:55:26.236-07:00Fastest ComputersRecent press info about Japan planning a faster computer than the current IBM "Blue Gene" machine. The Japanese one is planned to run at about 73 times that speed.The fastest machines are purported to be: Japan currently has the Earth Simulator, at a speed of 35.9 teraflops, which is fourth fastest after two versions of IBM's Blue Gene and NASA's has the "Columbia" system. A Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1118611803391576142005-06-12T14:19:00.000-07:002005-06-12T14:37:23.610-07:00Teaching RobotsFor a long time, the conventional approach to teachng robots has been a fundamentally wrong one. Often described as a 'dictionary' approach, the assumption was that you could pre-load a robot or AI with a bunch of terms, and their definitions in a 'look-up table' structure, and then associate those items with the sensory signature of each item and presto, you've got a robot or AI Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1099673830040006812004-11-05T08:55:00.000-08:002004-11-05T08:57:28.803-08:00From a VentureWire article:
On Thursday [nov 5,2004], the Department of Energy claimed a
supercomputer being developed to analyze the mation's
nuclear stockpile achieved a sustained performance of
70.72 trillion calculations per second, becoming the
world's fastest computer. The machine, built by IBM at
a cost of roughly $100 million, runs on Linux, an
open-source operating system that is Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1064197469270340642004-01-10T19:24:00.000-08:002005-06-12T14:40:03.116-07:00 Intelligence Intelligence is defined as an ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or alternatively "The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge."It's actually a lot more simple a definition than I would ascribe to the word. I think a definition that might more deftly nail "intelligence" would relate more to the ability to recognize structure in information, to extract Rossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1064687610570030252003-09-27T11:33:00.000-07:002003-09-27T11:33:30.240-07:00 Human Extinction
Here's a good, funny website about human extinction
http://www.vhemt.org
Kind of tongue-in-cheek but a pretty sensible philosphy behind it. Don't know if I'd go so far as extinction, but I think it would be cool if the earth had only about 1 billion people rather than our current 6.5
Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1064195260206509192003-09-21T18:47:00.000-07:002003-09-21T18:47:39.770-07:00What is the Singularity?
The well known exponential growth in innovation, invention and technology development appears to lead toward an event so substantial, so revolutionary, that it's occurrence could be rated on par with the emergence of life on the planet.
The path to the singularity is suggested to find it's way through the emergence of machine intelligence that surpasses our own. The Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843808.post-1064192498557277622003-09-21T17:58:00.000-07:002007-02-13T17:43:58.156-08:00This is an infrequent blog to record various steps that I think are in the direction of the singularity. What is the singuarlity? We're not sure, but according to some, something big will happen soon. Perhaps machine intelligence. Perhaps some trans-human existance gets enabled. A revolutionary change will happen sometime between 2005 and 2030 - says Verner Vinge, a prominent writer on the Rossnoreply@blogger.com