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Data science and limits on human lifespan (or … vampire heart rates)
Human longevity science has been in the news recently. According to a paper in Nature by Dong et al. (New York Times article), the natural limit on human lifespan is about 115 years. Life expectancy has essentially stopped improving. This is in contrast to the views and hopes of some, such as the transhumanists and folks at Singularity University (whom we previously discussed in our water futures article and elsewhere), who are giddy that advances in technology (such as the super-intelligence) will soon lead to vasty elongated lifespans. Are there some simple data science or predictive analytics things we can do to illustrate the underlying the limits on human lifespan? Can we use predictive analytics to figure out what technologies or behaviors might potentially hold the key to greatly extended human longevity? (And is greatly prolonged life even a socially desirable or feasible goal given the resource limits like limits on pension funds?)… Read the restSignal processing, motion, and artificial intelligence: Ted Talk
Intelligence, signal processing, and motion Intelligence, as it evolved in the natural world, is closely connected to motion. As at least one neuroscientist has noted that no motion means no need for a brain. We generalize a neuroscience Ted Talk linking brains to muscles to argue that intelligence is best considered a form of signal processing in a very noisy environment. This is very different from the traditional symbolic paradigm of artificial intelligence, which is not at all suited for signal processing. We had a tremendous reader response (mostly on various different social media sites) in response to our superintelligence article. We have a lot of ground to cover to respond to all the comments. We have to explain why any of a number of paradigms place limits on any computing system (including a superintelligent one). We need to talk about why intelligence likely scales with non-linear diminishing returns with effort (and why that may make superintelligence difficult).… Read the restSuperintelligence might be 40,000 years old?
10,000+ article views since 2015/06/27 Tim Berners-Lee’s corporations not the first forms of superintelligence? A topic that’s been retweeted by celebrity business leaders involves the prospect of a so-called artificial superintelligence on the horizon. This might be a boon to humanity or a terror, depending on who you read. Superintelligent artificial intelligence is related to the futurist and transhumanist concept of singularity. (So called because, as each generation of computers designs the next faster generation, technology and civilization shrinks under Moore’s law until vanishes into something like a black hole. Advancing towards the technological singularity is something of a Malthusian trap; fail and your civilization collapses violently (as we previously explored). It has been suggested that the technological singularity (together with convergent evolution) is the explanation for the Fermi Paradox. Superintelligence has been controversial of late as the topic of a bestselling book and rebuttals to it. Does the Singularity explain the Fermi Paradox?… Read the restRay Kurzweil Ted Videos on Dinosaur Extinctions
Our of our most popular posts have touched on Ray Kurzweil themes of the Singularity as well as Ray Kurzweil’s decades-old ideas on wearables that appear to have inspired Google Glass. We noticed he’s done at least one additional Ted Talk since we ran our articles. (Oh. We needed a photo for an earlier version this, so we did this glitch art of the earlier Singularity-themed photo:) Kurzweil had quite a career. After coming to national prominence at an early age on a national quiz show for his computer-generated music (in the old Black & White mainframe days), he invented a reading machine for the blind (and OCR and speech synthesis in the process). He went on to start a eponymous music synthesizer company (one of many successful companies he’s founded). Recently he founded Singularity University and did a stint at Google working on artificial intelligence. The predictions in his best-selling books and videos, based on Moore’s law, have been eerily accurate.… Read the restRecent Comments
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