Abstract: a continuation of the systems approach as applied to AI and machine consciousness, some social commentary thrown in for good measure This somewhat informal essay follows previous publications on designing autonomous computer systems or synthetic intelligence....
Human jobs are being eliminated by computers and robots, who work without complaints or demands, in exchange for electricity and maintenance. In the future, if the rat-brain research described in this article pays off, perhaps we will be able to rent brain-hours to our local...
created by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 77 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
" Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.And the...
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"A group of researchers has developed a novel way to view the world through the eyes of a common fly and partially decode the insect’s reactions to changes in the world around it. The research fundamentally...
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"Men are more rewarded by video games than women on a neural level, which explains why they're more likely to become addicted to them, researchers at Stanford University claim."
""RSUI will become a Brain and Neural Center," Gumilar said, adding that the money for building the project take the form of a Japanese assistance.
Gumilar said the construction of the hospital will take about two years, and in 2011 the UI medical faculty in Salemba, Jakarta,...
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Give lab monkeys mind-controlled weapons and they might be gunning for some payback! Personally, I see a wide, wonderful future in mind-controlled prosthetics; weaponry is not the first thing to come to mind with this sort of thing, but I guess for some..."Work on...
This article--which I had to read a few times to get to the heart of, thanks to the folks at Scientific American (more power to you for not playing dumb)--basically breaks down to this: they thought that our...
created by Kaitlin | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 340 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments