artificial intelligence – Page 13

Hive Mind

Another path to the Singularity – Mind Swarms & Gestalt Personalities.
How long can fragile human egos remain intact against the coming of the Hive Minds?

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/science-can-learn-wiring-monkey-brains-together/

“I can imagine surgeons coordinating surgery together or mathematicians visualizing the solution to a problem together. Or musicians and artists with a new way of working creatively.”

(image: http://vitaloverdose.deviantart.com/art/Entrance-to-the-hive-mind-335933571 )

Technology Wagging the Dog

Are we still wearing the wizards hat? Has the golem blinked?

Technology is happy to take us with it, towards its womb – an obscure grey cloud sparkling with nano-bots and AIs – as long as we don’t dare touch the reigns!

Technology is the phenotype. We are the cellular machinery encoding its genome.