Singularity Links

Closer than you think 46:00 Interesting at about 15:-20: Suggests private development by the losers in AI contests looking for something to do with this research.
No singularity -- it is too complex 5:03

IV . GOLDEN AGE
"Super-intelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" by Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. I haven't read it, but the reviews make it sound like the author reads the same sources I have used for this report. The questions raised herein are therefore not unique.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/08/elon-musk-says-robots-could-be-more-dangerous-nukes/90521/

Neurons from a rat were "cultured in a petri dish and rapidly began to reconnect themselves to form a living neural network. The cells were arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes and used to fly an aircraft simulator. "The study's focus was on understanding how the human brain performs and learns computational tasks at a cellular level"
http://www.wireheading.com/misc/artificial-brain.html
http://neural.bme.ufl.edu/page12/page1/page1.html

Singularity 7:00
Immortality

Personal Robots. Still pic of robot girl use for title fade.
Current FebBot state of development 10: Trung is currently working to improve his "girlfriend" in other ways.
Would you Making life-like-android-robots 3:min
FemBots For sale
Population explosion 59:00 Use first one minute to establish the concern

V . POST HUMAN
. . . ?
Hawking's you would lose quote
IS HUMANITY WORTH SAVING?
Cute line: "In an age when scientists are creating artificial intelligence, too many of our educational institutions seem to be creating artificial stupidity. Followed by discussion of domestic and international controversies.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/is-thinking-now-obsolete/#76FvXPyM6C932tu5.99
People of Walmart
2011 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh7xnpNtuq4&list=RD2T-QHCDOyso&index=2
2012 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0BMP4wdG4CQ
2013 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4Y9Cft_yI&index=5&list=RD2T-QHCDOyso
2014 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0BMP4wdG4
Can big brother be worse than this?
History of Europe - 6013 years in 3 minutes HD edited. 3:13
1000 years of Europe | 1000 year map of Europe that
1000 year map of Europe -- represents how history should be taught. One time thru shows the foolishness of war, of mankind, and for all time. What a lesson in less than a minute.

SOURCES
Headlines:
Robots-Could-Humanize-War

The National Science Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as "personal trainers" for children, in an effort to influence their behavior and eating habits. Will ultimately "deploy" robots into homes and schools to teach English as a second language, and encourage kids to exercise.
Feds-spending-10-million-to-build-robot-companions-for-children

Unknown
WHAT IS SMART - INTELLIGENCE? ( IQ Documentary, 49 minutes):
Singularity Interview -- 49 minutes with that bald guy

Possibly interesting Links from some major sources.
PBS : NOVA SCIENCE
TED. Technology, Entertainment and Design . Somebody in class mentioned he had seen something on TED. This is normally a good source of leading edge things, but nothing on The Singularity.
- Robot for paralyzed man.
- Get ready for hybrid thinking neocortex in the cloud 9:52 minutes
- A new way to grow bone in vast quantities
- The linguistic genius of babies Learning in babies
- understand_consciousness 18:42
- The illusion of consciousness 21:48
- Watch me unveil "synthetic life" 18:17
  This is the first synthetic cell, a cell made by starting with the digital code in the computer, building the chromosome from four bottles of chemical. So this is the first self-replicating species that we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer. The technique is now being used to create new strains of algae able to efficiently convert CO2 into ordinary gasoline and diesel fuel.
- A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts 14:56 No, really! Showing how a clever monkey in the US learned to control a robot arm in Japan purely with its thoughts.
- augmented_reality 8:04 seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smart phone such as making a painting talk to overlaying live news onto a printed newspaper.
- How to look inside the brain. Tools that let us see inside our brains.
Certification level courses -- free
HOLLYWOOD
Transcendence (2014), Elysium (2013), Her (2013) , ia

World without America - watch before Kent's talk next session.

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Play List for Class -- edited from longer YouTube versions

Eighty-some Links we didn't have time for in class.

Possibly interesting Links from some major sources.