Mike,
My comment is that this is GREAT research and development, but, for
the near and probably medium future is very likely to be about perception
and action rather than cognition.
I.e., we are sort of on the verge of understanding how to hook up new
sensors to the brain, and hook the brain up
Bob M:Only after the
initial medical phase which could last several decades will brain
implants be sufficiently inexpensive
Well a big paper here gave a whole page to a new brain helmet for games
which they claimed really worked - was effective. Whatever, the prospect of
a BCI for games has to
On 14/12/2007, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The future course of AGI is contentious and uncertain (though I have my own
strong opinions), but it seems very clear that mobile robotics tech is
more advanced
than mind-reading-type brain-imaging, and apt to progress far faster...
Greetings Jirih,
A few minutes ago I uploaded my website - http://www.footnotestrongai.com
The write up on a praying AI is amongst the Articles, and can be found
under Just for Fun. I'll look at the link you've suggested below.
Stan
Jiri Jelinek wrote:
Stan,
there are believers on
Mike wrote:
Personally, my guess is that serious mindreading machines will be a reality
in the not too distant future - before AGI and seriously autonomous mobile
robots.
No way.
Tell that to the neuroscientists in your local university neuro lab, and they'll
get a good laugh ;-)
The
Hi,
From Bob Mottram on the AGI list:
However, I'm not expecting to see the widespread cyborgisation of
human society any time soon. As the article suggests the first
generation implants are all devices to fulfill some well defined
medical need, and will have to go through all the usual
A couple good articles
Soemthing like the las one might be applied directly to teaching an AGI
movement, or how to learn new things.
Second Life Brain Interface
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/10/brain-computer-interface-for-second-life/
Paralyzed Main BCI
On Dec 14, 2007 8:33 AM, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, if a certain nation were to make laws allowing this, and to encourage
research into this, then potentially they could gain a dramatic advantage
over other nations...
There does therefore seem a possibility for a brain
Bear in mind that science has used very little imagination here to date.
Science only started studying consciousness ten years ago. It still hasn't
started studying Thought - the actual contents of consciousness: the
streams of thought inside people's heads. In both cases, the reason has been
Mike:
Making the general public smarter is not in the best interest of
government, who wants to keep us fat dumb and (relatively) happy
(read: distracted).
If we're not making people smarter with currently available resources,
why would we invest in research to discover expensive new
Ben: What is the empirical grounds for your optimism?
Not much other than the fact that they have started to do it. And if you can
signal one command to a machine, then, it strikes me, there should in the
end be no limit to the commands that can be signalled.
Perhaps we should distinguish
Ben:What do you think the mushrooming of Cognitive Science during the last
decade has been? Science does recognize thought as a critical area
of study. It's just a difficult thing to study.
That's what they said about consciousness. Consciousness became a serious
area of study largely because
On Dec 14, 2007 10:07 AM, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we're not making people smarter with currently available resources,
why would we invest in research to discover expensive new technologies
to make people smarter? We need that money to invest in research for
expensive
Is China pushing its people into being smarter? Are they giving
incentives beyond the US-style capitalist reasons for being smart?
The incentive is that if you get smart enough, you may figure out a way
to get out of China ;-)
Thus, they let the top .01% out, so as to keep the rest of the
On Friday 14 December 2007, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
But, we're still quite clueless about how to, say, hook the brain up
to a calculator or to Google in a useful way... due to having a
vastly insufficiently detailed knowledge of how the brain carries out
cognitive operations...
While overall
On Friday 14 December 2007, Mike Dougherty wrote:
Are there any efforts at using Nootropic drugs in a 'brain
enhancement race' ? I haven't heard about it, but then I wouldn't
because the program would be kept secret.
There might be one behind the scenes. *cough*
- Bryan
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This list is
Is that sarcasm or an official Communist Party platform?
On Dec 14, 2007 3:48 PM, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is China pushing its people into being smarter? Are they giving
incentives beyond the US-style capitalist reasons for being smart?
The incentive is that if you
That is sarcasm ... however, it's also my serious hypothesis as to why
the Chinese gov't doesn't mind losing their best brightest...
-- Ben
On Dec 14, 2007 7:35 PM, Robin Gane-McCalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is that sarcasm or an official Communist Party platform?
On Dec 14, 2007 3:48 PM,
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