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"Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable." - Elon Musk
Fascinating discussion:
Small steps:
13 Sep 2018
AI-Human “Hive Mind” Diagnoses Pneumonia
A small group of doctors moderated by AI algorithms made a more accurate diagnosis than individual physicians or AI alone
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/ai-human-hive-mind-diagnoses-pneumonia
First, it correctly predicted the top four finishers at the Kentucky Derby. Then, it was better at picking Academy Award winners than professional movie critics—three years in a row. The cherry on top was when it prophesied that the Chicago Cubs would end a 108-year dry spell by winning the 2016 World Series—four months before the Cubs were even in the playoffs. (They did.)
Now, this AI-powered predictive technology is turning its attention to an area where it could do some real good—diagnosing medical conditions.
10 Sep 2018
DARPA Wants Brain Interfaces for Able-Bodied Warfighters
The N3 program will create no-surgery-required neurotech that the general public may also find useful
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human...-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters
Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for warfighters who have returned home with disabilities of the body or brain. For example, programs have funded research on prosthetic limbs that are wired into the nervous system and brain implants that could treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
But the way the military fights wars is changing, and so must DARPA’s priorities. At a conference last week to celebrate DARPA’s 60th anniversary, officials described the next frontier of neuroscience research: technologies for able-bodied soldiers that give them super abilities.
“Warfighters need new ways to interface and interoperate with machines,” says Al Emondi, manager of DARPA’s newest neurotech program. “But most of the technologies developed up to this point require surgery. What got us here won’t take us there.”
The program has two tracks: One for researchers developing completely non-invasive tech and the other those working on “minutely invasive” technologies. Both those categories require a little explanation.
Minutely invasive: DARPA invented this wording to avoid the term “minimally invasive,” which, in medicine typically means laparoscopic surgery. DARPA doesn’t want its new brain tech to require even a tiny incision. Instead, minutely invasive tech might come into the body in the form of an injection, a pill, or even a nasal spray. Emondi imagines “nanotransducers” that can sit inside neurons, converting the electrical signal when it fires into some other type of signal that can be picked up through the skull.
The N3 program demands non-invasive tech that can read signals out of and write information into 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue, and do so within 10 milliseconds.
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AI-related funding totaled an estimated $15.2 billion in 2017, a 144% increase over the previous year. The U.S. tech industry leads with a 50% share of those investments, even with China swiftly closing the gap in terms of patents and AI research.
Long way to go, I think, to anything like this:
Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0003JAOO0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
Fascinating discussion:
Small steps:
13 Sep 2018
AI-Human “Hive Mind” Diagnoses Pneumonia
A small group of doctors moderated by AI algorithms made a more accurate diagnosis than individual physicians or AI alone
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/ai-human-hive-mind-diagnoses-pneumonia
First, it correctly predicted the top four finishers at the Kentucky Derby. Then, it was better at picking Academy Award winners than professional movie critics—three years in a row. The cherry on top was when it prophesied that the Chicago Cubs would end a 108-year dry spell by winning the 2016 World Series—four months before the Cubs were even in the playoffs. (They did.)
Now, this AI-powered predictive technology is turning its attention to an area where it could do some real good—diagnosing medical conditions.
10 Sep 2018
DARPA Wants Brain Interfaces for Able-Bodied Warfighters
The N3 program will create no-surgery-required neurotech that the general public may also find useful
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human...-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters
Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for warfighters who have returned home with disabilities of the body or brain. For example, programs have funded research on prosthetic limbs that are wired into the nervous system and brain implants that could treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
But the way the military fights wars is changing, and so must DARPA’s priorities. At a conference last week to celebrate DARPA’s 60th anniversary, officials described the next frontier of neuroscience research: technologies for able-bodied soldiers that give them super abilities.
“Warfighters need new ways to interface and interoperate with machines,” says Al Emondi, manager of DARPA’s newest neurotech program. “But most of the technologies developed up to this point require surgery. What got us here won’t take us there.”
The program has two tracks: One for researchers developing completely non-invasive tech and the other those working on “minutely invasive” technologies. Both those categories require a little explanation.
Minutely invasive: DARPA invented this wording to avoid the term “minimally invasive,” which, in medicine typically means laparoscopic surgery. DARPA doesn’t want its new brain tech to require even a tiny incision. Instead, minutely invasive tech might come into the body in the form of an injection, a pill, or even a nasal spray. Emondi imagines “nanotransducers” that can sit inside neurons, converting the electrical signal when it fires into some other type of signal that can be picked up through the skull.
The N3 program demands non-invasive tech that can read signals out of and write information into 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue, and do so within 10 milliseconds.
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AI-related funding totaled an estimated $15.2 billion in 2017, a 144% increase over the previous year. The U.S. tech industry leads with a 50% share of those investments, even with China swiftly closing the gap in terms of patents and AI research.
Long way to go, I think, to anything like this:
Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0003JAOO0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
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