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Machine Consciousness: No Practical Value? - 0 views
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I read an interesting article this morning from the Burlington Free Press featuring the work of Josh Bongard, hired by the University of Vermont as an assistant professor of computer science. The article focused much of its attention on Bongard's self-aware robot, Black Starfish.
Strong AI: Safety and Ethical Considerations - 0 views
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I've been reading up on some of the considerations that must be part and parcel with the actual process of developing strong AI (defined as artificial intelligence that equals or exceeds human-level intelligence), and it seems clear that some pretty important questions must be asked and answered as part of the process.
Boiling the Frog: Our Transition to Singularity - 0 views
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You've all heard the metaphor, right? Boiling a frog? Gradually increasing the temperature of the water so the frog gets used to it until it's hot enough to boil? Yes, that one. Apart from the sad conclusion of the analogy, the idea of gradual change not being very noticeable fits the way that accelerating technological change will be accepted by humans.
Will Humans Become Attached to Robots? - 0 views
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Will Humans Become Attached to Robots?Many have speculated about how humanity will react to robots. There are researchers who are focused entirely on making robots look more like humans, adding facial expressiveness, gestures and head movements like nods and shakes, all designed to help us accept robots into our lives. But I don't think that's going to be a problem.
THE PRICE OF RICE! - Transcendence in Bite-Sized Bits: Graphene - Thin is In - 0 views
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Billed as "the thinnest of all possible materials in the universe," graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like "molecular chicken wire."
THE PRICE OF RICE! - Transcendence in Bite-Sized Bits: Big Crunch, Big Freeze...or Big ... - 0 views
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For whatever reason, from whatever strange motive, scientists have speculated on the question of how our universe will end. It matters not to them that this denouement exists so far into the future that the numbers are incomprehensible in any meaningful way. They simply want to know. They surmise that the universe will end either in a big crunch or a big freeze.
Exploring Emergence - 0 views
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Great introduction to emergence, including several simulations you can play with. Simulations include the classic "Life," Brian's brain, and one that tends towards chaotic patterns.
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Craig Venter | Profile on TED.com - 1 views
Comet Contains One of Life’s Precursors | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views
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Scientists have discovered the amino acid glycine, a critical component of all living things, hiding in samples from the comet Wild 2. It's the first
SPACE.com -- Lack of Gravity Waves Puts Limits on Exotic Cosmology Theories - 0 views
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Though an experiment hunting for gravitational waves has yet to find any, its null result helps constrain models of how the universe began.
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » Split decision on cancer s... - 0 views
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Peer review within science journalism
One in seven scientists say colleagues fake data - Times Online - 0 views
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Faking scientific data and failing to report commercial conflicts of interest are far more prevalent than previously thought, a study suggests.
Technology Review: Life on moduli space? - 0 views
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Is there something special about exact supersymmetry that precludes complex life?
What Is The Composition Of Air On Earth? - 0 views
One step to human pluripotency :The Scientist [28th August 2009] - 0 views
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Researchers have regressed human stem cells to an embryonic state using just a single transcription factor, as opposed to the four factors previously needed to induce pluripotency in human cells, according to a study published online today (August 28) in Nature.
BBC - Spaceman: Still waiting to bag the big one - 0 views
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It was supposed to be the first great scientific discovery of the 21st Century - or so many researchers thought when they rushed down to the bookmakers to place bets at what were deemed at the time to be ludicrously generous odds. The physicists believed that they were close to making the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time generated by supernovas and coalescing neutron stars.
Stanford's Hank Greely puts neuroscience on trial - 0 views
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"A lawyer is trying to convince a jury that his client really is crazy. It's usually a tough argument to sell in a court of law. But what if the lawyer has a picture of his client's brain that shows there's something biologically wrong with it? Can that evidence help persuade a jury? Should it even be allowed as evidence?"
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