Daniel Araya: Chris Eliasmith on Reverse Engineering the Brain, Dangerous AI, and Universal Basic Income

Chris Eliasmith on Reverse Engineering the Brain, Dangerous AI, and Universal Basic Income My interview with Chris Eliasmith, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and head of the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of one of the world’s most realistic brain simulations (SPAUN), winner of the …

Adam Tucker: Diamonds and War — How De Beers Supplied Hitler, Diddled the USA, and Confounded the OSS

A must read. The strategic importance of diamonds became acutely clear to both the Allies and Axis powers with the approach of the Second World War in 1939. Only diamonds were hard enough to stamp out the millions of precision parts that were necessary for mass-producing airplane engines, torpedoes, tanks, artillery and the other weapons …

Robert Steele: New Chapter on Augmented Human Intelligence with Man-Machine Integrity

ROBERT STEELE: I am interested in hearing from anyone who wishes to share sources and perspectives relevant to the below planned work that has been commissioned for a 2016 publication. I am especially interested in having one or more major information technology companies in this space subsidize several months of research. Title: “Augmented Human Intelligence …