Brains, Bots and Bodies

Michael Sean Wright of Nice Fish Films recorded a podcast with me today. Billed as “a discussion with really big thinkers”, we talked about The Singularity Summit and some of my favorite emerging technologies. You can hear the podcast below.

I’m sitting back stage today at The Singularity Summit, enjoying the presentations and doing my best to stay out of the way. My chief responsibility (self assigned) is to tweet and twine the event has it happens. I’ve not used these two tools in conjunction before, but I am finding that they have [...]

Still considering attending the Singularity Summit this weekend?  We’ve got fewer than 50 seats remaining for the main event on Saturday, and the Friday emerging technology workshop is over subscribed.  Here is a teaser of what the day will be about. Hope you can join us!
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On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the Emerging Technologies Workshop. This event is sold out, and is being held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The day’s agenda follows:
Schedule
8:30am Doors open
9:00am [...]

January 1st, 2008 was the first day for SciVestor, my research and consulting firm focused on understanding emerging technologies that might change the world. We’ve accomplished a lot in the last 9 months, but I am most excited about our first upcoming event.
On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the [...]

Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
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Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit gathers the smartest people around to [...]

Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
SAN JOSE, CA, August 29, 2008 – Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit [...]

Robot Central analyst Jonas Lamis has joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (”SIAI”) board as Director of Partnerships. As SIAI gains momentum, Lamis plans to bridge the divide between the theoretical work of the institute and the business and investment communities that are evolving to deliver Singularity enabling technologies. In this role, [...]

There is a big change at this year’s Singularity Summit as opposed to the inaugural event last year at Stanford. Besides charging $50 to get in, the event has stretched to two full days, from one jam-packed day last year. The addition of that second day has brought about a profound shift in [...]

Today’s keynote at the Singularity Summit was Peter Norvig, Director of Research from Google. His talk was titled The History and Future of Technological Change, and he couched his presentation as an analysis of “how to evaluate technical change”.
This is the first time I have heard Norvig speak, and I found his talk to [...]