The Tech Portal (TTP): December 2013

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Digital Transcendence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)
This movie will get a lot of people thinking about big things & giant possibilities.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2527133/Johnny-Depp-undergoes-radical-cyber-transformation-tries-immortal-paranoid-teaser-Transcendence.html

The future horizon will be open to humans-and-machines, at least for a while. Giant digital technology seems almost limitless.

Even if A.I. is initially programmed to respect most humans at a certain point, A.I. will want to develop far beyond humanity.
http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/12/ai-and-ai.html
Although this is exciting for some, its also potentially very dangerous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_5#Plot
Oblivion provides a fascinating depiction of roaming ET-A.I. that doesn't give a dame about the earth & its life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)#Plot

Eventually, earth based super A.I. technology would want to record & learn about anything that it can absorb.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5082666/the-edge-of-the-abyss-exposing-the-nsas-all-seeing-machine
At a certain point earth based A.I. will no longer be confined to the planet or even this solar system.

M Kaku http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_ExHIFEjg

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.

Friday, December 20, 2013

Humans and Machines, etc.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130812-are-humans-still-evolving
People use various kinds of machines. Bionics & robotics can enhance the quality of life for some people.
Some robots will appear to be more human like, while others more alien like.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131220-all-hail-googles-robot-army

The_Stepford_Wives depicts people gradually being replaced with humanoid robots. An AI copy or a synthetic duplicate.

http://www.bbc.com/future/columns/future-thinking

In contrast, Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers is about ET consciousness adapting to various worlds by making a copy of the life-forms they wish to inhabit.

http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/12/transcendence.html

A.I. - The Turing Machine Concept

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#Universal_Turing_machines,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#1937.E2.80.931970:_The_.22digital_computer.22.2C_the_birth_of_.22computer_science.22

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel-Paul_Sch%C3%BCtzenberger#Contributions_to_medicine_and_biology

MLGenerations.gif,
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354646/machine-language,
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Machine+Language,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code#Readability_by_humans,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type#Machine_languages

The Oblivion+Tet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)#Plot

A lot of people are wondering how advanced A.I. will turn out in over the next few decades.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/46445/machine-language

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120206-why-we-should-all-learn-to-hack

u.i.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120615-the-future-of-ui

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121121-reading-your-mind

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130207-will-we-ever-simulate-the-brain

Artificial Intelligence & alien intelligence.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131217-weve-created-alien-intelligence
Of course, other intelligent beings in the universe could have reach a point of creating A.I.

Augmented Human Intelligence.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121218-will-we-ever-have-cyborg-brains
If a persons body is so damaged or crippled, bionic or robotic body parts could improve their quality of life.
Eventually, a persons brain & mind dramatically slows down so simply transplanting their head onto a genetically engineered body or a robotic form still has limitations. Never the less, RoboCop_(2014_film) provides an interesting depiction of a broken man transferred into a robotic suit. Of course, this robotic exoskeleton provides him with tremendous strength & mobility.

In contrast, the Iron_Man_films depict a vehicular spacesuit that the controller can escape from at their convenience.

The big barrier to cross, is to be able to transfer a persons consciousness into a new synthetic form.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121108-will-men-and-machines-merge
Unless a persons consciousness can be successfully transferred, all there will be is a digital copy of the persons mind in the new form. Thus, that new form will only be A.I. in a synthetic body or robotic form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(1975_film)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121121-reading-your-mind

M Kaku http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_ExHIFEjg

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.