A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants. Alastair Clarke explains: "The theory is an ...

   The following is a work of fiction and bears no resemblance to any person living or dead. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Enjoy !   Jack had his most important exam tomorrow. He had to have some good memes today to get him going. So, he plugged himself to his favourite show "KLUTZ THE INCREDIBLE ...

In this session of the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, Self-Aware Systems founder Stephen Omohundro leads a discussion in which we will try to design the year 2030 assuming that we have both self-improving artificial intelligence and productive nanotechnology. We'll consider some of the likely characteristics of these technologies such as ...

Artificial Evolution - A Segment from a program in NG that discusses the possibilities of the AI and human enhancements in future.

In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful AI. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence exists to confront the implied challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.

There have been a couple of Google TechTalks recently (with more to come evidently) that took on extreme life extension and Artificial General Intelligence. One was administered by Aubrey de Grey, PhD entitled "Prospects for extending healthy life - a lot" The other was administered by Dr. Ben Goertzel entitled "Artificial General ...

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence has created a video to educate people about the challenges, opportunities and risks of creating general artificial intelligence:

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) announced today its $400,000 Online Matching Challenge, intended to fund a research program to create an artificial general ...

Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is a novel approach to building ''intelligent'' machines by modeling the human neocortex, selected by Numenta because it is responsible for almost all high-level thought and perception. ...

Google is sponsoring an artificial-intelligence research group's work to develop advanced technologies for character recognition. The Ocropus open-source project's goals include developing a high-level, easy-to-use handwriting recognition system t...