Category: Artificial Intelligence
Ex Machina – Official Trailer
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Ex Machina is your standard film script of boy meets girl. Except that this girl is a robot: a robot girlfriend programmed by a sociopathic billionaire. And she is a robot who may just want a mind of her own - wit...
Turing Test passed? (about Eugene Goostman)
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Ben Goertzel's in depth assessment of the reality behind the Eugene Goostman Turing Test results. @ 18:00 min: "I don't think there is any way anyone will consider this a real milestone in the path toward making huma...
Our Final Invention – James Barrat
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Singularity 1 on 1: James Barrat on Our Final Invention For 20 years James Barrat has created documentary films for National Geographic, the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel and public television. In 2000, d...
IBM’s Watson – The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson...
The Legacy of “2001: A Space Odyssey” – Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick
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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 British-American science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke's short ...
Utopia in Exile – David Brin
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Singularity- / AI-visie: vanaf 26:39 David's main thread: how will we shape the days and years ahead -- and how will tomorrow shape us? David Brin is a scientist, best-selling author and tech-futurist.
The Singularity 101 – Ben Goertzel
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Dr Goertzel speaks about the Singularity, what it is, road maps, the risks and the benefits etc. Ben Goertzel is AI-specialist en visionair.
David Pearce – H. G. Wells Utopia
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Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Well's The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. "That which does not...
Transcendent Man – Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil is moeilijk in één kwalificatie te typeren: hij is uitvinder, schrijver, futurist en zakenman. Maar bovenal is deze gedreven Amerikaan bekend als prediker van de Singulariteit -- grofweg samengevat het mo...
Are We Building Gods or Terminators? – Hugo de Garis
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Hugo de Garis is the past director of the Artificial Brain Lab (ABL) at Xiamen University in China. Best known for his doomsday book The Artilect War, Dr. de Garis has always been on my wish-list of future guests on S...
Why AI will probably kill us all.
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The Perils of Prediction: Ben Goertzel, Lawrence Krauss, Steve Omohundro
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Panel near the end of the Singularity Summit Australia 2011 on the Perils of Prediction (well the benefits as well - excuse the catchy title). Lawrence Krauss , Steve Omohundro and Ben Goertzel set sail on an epic ad...