ROBOTICS: Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
"Overall, 'a fitness increase of more than 40 percent over 10...
Have a big idea about how to use technology to tackle California’s drought? Applications are now open for the 2015 Singularity University Impact Challenge....
Ready or not, another episode Ask an Expert is already here...about as fast as robots are showing up in the workplace.
This episode, in fact, is all about robots and...
Join Singularity University August 20 at San Jose’s California Theatre for the 2015 Graduate Studies Program Closing Ceremony—a night of inspiration, impact, and exciting pitches...
How do you raise kids today during these exponential times?
Should they learn a second language… in a world of instant translation?
Should they ever memorize...
Do we have an adequate system for sorting through the ten thousand plus different educational technology materials and programs available for integration into our...
ROBOTICS: Forces of nature: Biomimicry in robotics
Stuart Nathan | The Engineer
"For example, the processes – the combination of systems of sensors, muscles and brain –...
Imagine a future where computers no longer run on silicon chips. The replacement?
Brains.
Thanks to two separate studies recently published in Scientific Reports, we may...
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
After all, "the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea"…...
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world…”
– Marshall McLuhan
A standard assumption of technological progress is that new innovations are...
ROBOTICS: Robots Can’t Kill You—and Claiming They Can is Dangerous
Ron Chrisley | Gizmodo
"Since robots don’t have responsibility, humans are the ones responsible for what robots do. However,...
With immense respect to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, I'd like to suggest an alternative to the giving pledge…an "impact pledge."
Specifically, a pledge where...
ROBOTICS: Our Robot Overlords Aren’t Quite Ready For Us — Yet
Caroline O'Donovan | BuzzFeed
"The issue is that robots are really good at doing the same...
Do you have a burning question about emerging technologies and how they're shaping the world? Maybe you're curious about when bitcoin will be accepted everywhere or...
Two proud countries, two extraordinary warriors…one title. Just like Rocky IV. Only instead of Sly and Dolph, substitute a 15-foot, 6-ton American robot going...
If you have a job, odds are society benefits from your work, and theoretically, the compensation you receive is how the marketplace values your contribution. All...
Building houses of brick is almost as old as human civilization itself, and over the millennia, we’ve perfected the art. The fastest bricklayers can...
Lately, media around the web has been bracing for robots — not time-traveling robots per se, but robot workers. Specifically, the increased sophistication of artificial intelligence and...
Four revolutions in transportation are taking place this decade.
This post is a look at how they will shape your life, your business and our world.
In...
SPACE: Why Send Humans to Space When We Can Send Robots?
Daniel Oberhaus | Motherboard
"The first marketable, personal computers in the late 70s came about...
If you’re a science fiction fan—you are well familiar with holographic displays floating in midair. Maybe it’s Princess Leia materializing above R2-D2 or Tony...
Scientists first transcribed the genome—or complete genetic code—of a free living organism in 1995. Sequencing the bacterium H. Influenzae took a little over a...
You may recall that late last year, a breakthrough in manufacturing occurred a few hundred miles above the Earth.
After having sent a 3D printer to the...
Discussing security and internet privacy on a panel with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and Singularity University CEO Rob Nail, Goodman nicely distinguishes the Surface, Deep, and Dark...
Machine learning and data science will do more to improve healthcare than all the biological sciences combined.
This post is about how we're going to gather...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Google DeepMind Teaches Artificial Intelligence Machines to Read
arXiv | Technology Review
"A revolution in artificial intelligence is currently sweeping through computer science. The technique is...
When we let our minds wander, sleeping or waking, they begin mixing and remixing our experiences to create weird images, hallucinations, even epiphanies.
These might...
Recently, Google’s DeepMind—an artificial intelligence firm acquired for over $400 million in 2013—has been widely featured for demonstrations of an algorithm that teaches itself to play...
Visiting Singularity University (SU) for the first time, social entrepreneur and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said he wasn’t sure what to expect. But on...
