http://www.novamente.net/bruce artificial general intelligence & the technological singularity Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:22:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ben will be speaking at upcoming AI Meetup What: Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC When: Sunday September 7, 2008 12:00 Noon Where: TechShop - 120 Independence Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025 More: http://ai.meetup.com/94/calendar/8644333 Meetup Description: We canceled our AI meetups scheduled for Aug. 31 and Sept 14. Fortunately for us, Dr. Ben Goertzel from Novament will ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=167 While at IDF in San Francisco (Aug-08), I had the pleasure of watching, from the front row no less, Intel's CTO, Justin Rattner explain+support Ray Kurzweil's concept of the technological singularity. This is big. Now, more and more high level executives will come out in support w/o fear of ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=94 I think Susan and I hosted the first swingularitarian cocktail party... ...at our place in Redwood City, CA. Russell Whitaker is credited w/ coining the term when he, Moshe Looks and I were brainstorming new phrases in the kitchen. In pic above, Nancy Kelly (on the Magical Blue Bean Bag), Greg ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=123 VentureBeat's Dan Kaplan reviewed Novamente from an informed perspective: Nintendogs for the DS was a brilliant game. Its premise — pick a puppy and nurture it to adulthood — played on the digital pet theme that has driven high sales from Tamagotchi to Pikachu, and let you teach your dogs fancy ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=85 spectrum.ieee.org/singularity google.com/search?hl=en&q=IEEE+Spectrum+singularity http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=107 After a successful AGI-08 (videos online), AGI-09 is now planned for Arlington VA, Mar 6-9, 2009. It's really gratifying to know that after Ben Goertzel and I brainstormed the concept of an AGI event back in 2006 on my couch in Bethesda, MD, we're starting to see growing momentum toward ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=67 Here's a good, recent video, including Ray Kurzweil: http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=172 The InnerSpace Foundation and The IF Prize The IF takes the position that the most rapid timelines to solving humanity's most serious problems ” including providing complete and lasting cures for the most diseased and disabled ” will be accomplished through widespread improvement of memory and mind, rather than through ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=66 With great support from the Accelerating Future People Database, we're in the process of uploading AGI-08 talks. Thus far, Ben Goertzel's introductory talk - AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future - has been uploaded, along with a few other. http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=64 "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and ... http://www.novamente.net/bruce/?p=59