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According to world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the rising use of automated machines may mean the end of human rights – not just jobs. But he’s not talking about robots with artificial intelligence taking over the world, he’s talking about the current capitalist political system and its major players.…

Dylan Sevett | October 9, 2015

In a world first, a machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move.

14/09/2015

Immortality aside, DIY "bio-hacking" could provide solutions to everyday problems, despite the risks involved

Jamie Bartlett, 10/09/2015

You would think that in this day and age of infographics that finding a map laying out the ecosystem of the Internet of Things would exist. Surprisingly, a Google search doesn’t appear to return much. Neither does a Twitter a search.
Recently though I found two worth sharing. One from Goldman Sachs and the other from Chris McCann which I found very interesting - A Map of The Internet of Things Market.

David Oro on August 31, 2015

You’ve probably noticed the trend. The doomsayers are yelling once more. They are telling us that technology poses a threat to human employment — that the robots are coming for our jobs. This is a thesis that has been defended in...

John Danaher 08/09/2015

Anyone who takes transhumanism seriously is almost by default an ‘ethical modernist’. The position is easiest to state in terms of the history of philosophy. It is someone who believes that Kant and...

Computers can prove mathematical theorems. But can they make deep conceptual insights into the way the world works?

What would you do if you could do anything?

Would you be a rockstar, playing a sold out arena? Or be a surfer, riding the gnarliest 100-foot swells this side of Hawaii?

No seriously, stop for a second and picture it.

Imagine yourself there.

JASON GANZ, 06/08/2015

Alors que l'intelligence artificielle entre aujourd'hui dans une nouvelle ère, les questionnements autour de cette technologie sont de plus en plus nombreux. L'informatique cognitive ne se limite plus à des algorithmes ultra performants : ils sont maintenant partie intégrante d'une industrie 2.0. Quand l'intelligence artificielle essaie d'obtenir ses lettres de noblesse...

Is Transhumanism an exercise in Unnatural Selection?

By definition “Transhumanism” seeks to accelerate the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form. It is therefore in direct conflict with the established biological evolutionary processes responsible for the betterment of species. In a sense you could be excused for asking whether Transhumanism is in fact in competition with Mother Nature. And naturally, is this a bad thing?

Andrew Allan, 10/09/2015

We cover many emerging markets in the startup ecosystem. Previously, we published posts that summarized Financial Technology, Internet of Things, Bitcoin, and MarTech in six visuals. This week, we do the same with Artificial Intelligence (AI). At this time, we are tracking 855 AI companies across 13 categories, with a combined funding amount of $8.75 billion. 

Venture Scanner, 04/09/2015

A journalist recently asked me what I think the internet will look like in 2040. The question took me a little by surprise, because despite working in the technology industry for the last two years and witnessing the drastic changes that have taken place, I’ve never really taken a step back from it all and thought what the world might be like in ten years, let alone 25 years.

Zafar Jamati on 9 September, 2015

Having a usable definition of artificial intelligence – and soon – is vital for regulation and governance, writes Gary Lea.

Startup Knowm's has a combo 'Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian' (AHaH) machine learning approach using memristors (others use one or the other, but only Knowm uses both at once) thus allowing the customer to define their own specific learning algorithm using the same building blocks.

Certaines peignent à la façon des grands maîtres, d’autres improvisent sur du jazz… Dotés d’une forme d’imagination, certains programmes d’intelligence artificielle parviennent désormais à concurrencer l’esprit humain.

Morgane Tual, 08/09/2015

What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.

The last six months has seen a rising flood of publicity about “killer robots” and autonomy in weapons systems. On November 19, 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a 50-page report “Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots” outlining concerns about “fully autonomous weapons that could select and engage targets without human intervention” and claiming that a “preemptive prohibition on their development and use is needed”.

Mark Waser, 08/08/2015

The Department of Defense has found a new way to create an artificially intelligent being: jazz music.

Kelland Thomas, a jazz musician and associate professor at the University of Arizona School of Music, was recently granted funding to build a system capable of musically improvising with a human player. Thomas' program, called MUSICA, for Music Improvising Collaborative Agent, will be far more advanced than the othervirtual musicians out there. 

Max Plenke 07/08/2015