One of my favorite blogs, io9, has been running a series of posts on “posthumanity” from both fiction and real-life. Today R.U. Sirius of h+ Magazine has a great post up about his “best-case scenario for posthumanity.” In it, he describes what his ideal vision of the future might look like, which includes open-source style [...]
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GeekDad asks: “When do the machines take over?”
Curtis Silver, better known as Wired’s “GeekDad,” looks at our current level of technological progress, where we’re set to go in the near future, and can’t help but ask when humanity is going to face Judgment Day (well, almost). While that computer was built for a particular function and with the best intentions in mind, [...]
Engineering professor advises SyFy’s “Caprica”
Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica spinoff that debuted on the SyFy network this week, examines ethical implications of artificial intelligence and robotics. I don’t think I’m spoiling anything by revealing that, if you ever watched Battlestar, you know humanity’s dabbling with strong AI didn’t end well for our species. Even though the show is fiction, I [...]