Last edited by 4Dragons; 02-26-2016 at 02:23 AM.
Originally Posted by Tyde
Marco Rubio is a Machine.
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
-Stephen Hawking
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0dbb8000d9f15
He is right. It is hard wired in a lot of humans to want better shit and to always want to "upgrade." The only way this changes is some kind of modification to our brains (which is a possibility at some point). It is interesting the empathy that humans have to things they identify with or that they see as "helpless." Even seeing the robot "fucked with" triggered a little something in me. As they become more human like, this is only going to intensify.
:freelewfather
Caught this week's NOVA and true to form it included the OP video of the latest from Boston Dynamics, it was called "Rise of the Robots" and focused on several groups of researchers that were building robots that could act as rescue bots that could deal with rough terrain, open doors and drive a car.
Full EP Stream: http://allmyvideos.net/k54f4ahe9zds
"Rise of the Drones" was another they did, here is the entire EP:
Pentagon Research Could Make ‘Brain Modem’ a RealityThe tiny injectable machine could turn your noodle into a remote control.
The Pentagon is attempting what was, until recently, an impossible technological feat—developing a high-bandwidth neural interface that would allow people to beam data from their minds to external devices and back.
That’s right—a brain modem. One that could allow a soldier to, for example, control a drone with his mind.
This seemingly unlikely piece of technology has just gotten a lot less unlikely. On Feb. 8, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—the U.S. military’s fringe-science wing—announced the first successful tests, on animal subjects, of a tiny sensor that travels through blood vessels, lodges in the brain and records neural activity.
The so-called “stentrode,” a combination stent and electrode, is the size of a paperclip and flexible. The tiny, injectable machine—the invention of neurologist Tom Oxley and his team at the University of Melbourne in Australia—could help researchers solve one of the most vexing problems with the brain modem: how to insert a transmitter into the brain without also drilling a hole in the user’s head, a risky procedure under any circumstances.
Based on existing stents that doctors use to clean blood vessels, the stentrode includes sensors and a tiny transmitter. Entering the bloodstream via a catheter, the stentrode swims in the bloodstream.
Doctors monitor the stentrode on its journey through the circulatory system. When the device reaches the brain, the physicians command it to expand against the blood vessels’ walls and hold station. There it remains for potentially months at a time, recording and relaying the subtle electrical signals that flow from the brain to the rest of the body.
“By reducing the need for invasive surgery, the stentrode may pave the way for more practical implementations of those kinds of life-changing applications of brain-machine interfaces,” Doug Weber, a DARPA program manager, said in a statement.
With DARPA funding beginning four years ago, Oxley and his team tested the stentrode on sheep, he and his teammates explained in an academic paper published in the journal Nature Biotechnology in early February.
In other words, the neurologist injected tiny sensors into some unwitting livestocks’ veins and, for six months, recorded the electrical impulses that control the animals’ movements.
According to DARPA, Oxley and his fellow researchers plan to test the stentrode on human patients as early as 2017 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Military experimentation could follow.
There are some dangers associated with the technology, Oxley told The Daily Beast. All stents run the risk of causing blood clots and strokes. But Oxley said that injecting the stentrode into a vein (which carries blood to the heart) rather than an artery (which carries blood from the heart) minimizes the stroke risk.
Even if the stentrode is fairly safe, it’s not clear that it will work the way the military wants it to. Oxley said he still doesn’t know whether the stentrode will be able to record the kind of fine data that DARPA would like its brain modem to handle.
Sensors resting directly on top of a brain during surgery have proved recently that they can detect neural activity at the level of a single brain cell. But a stent might not be able to achieve the same level of precision.
“Because it is located within the blood vessels of the brain, the stentrode will only be able to record electrical signals from large groups of brain cells,” Bradley Greger, a neural engineer at Arizona State University, told The Daily Beast.
But Oxley stressed that his stentrode is just a prototype. It should get better, he said. “The field of stenting is rapidly progressing.”
And the military’s demographics could give the stentrode a fertile testing ground. The human brain shrinks as it ages, increasing the distance between the organ and surrounding blood vessels. It could be easier for a stentrode to detect neural activity in a younger person with a “fuller” brain.
As it happens, the military employs a disproportionate number of young people.
Man who has penis ripped off as a child has 8 inch bionic replacement
http://m.nydailynews.com/news/world/...icle-1.2334100
My only thoughts on this are; imagine getting run into by this thing at full speed. Now cover it in titanium and electrify it's outer shell.
At 1:30 is basically how the rise of the robots was predicted in the Animatrix. Robots won't forget being bullied.
So the assumption is that you haven't seen Ex-Machina. Maybe go check that out.
Have seen it. She was fairly hot for a machine.So the assumption is that you haven't seen Ex-Machina. Maybe go check that out.
HE'S A GAY MACHINE
Marco Rubio is a Machine.
Not that there's anything wrong with that
Start building EMP's people
There is a war on between Robots and biotech, the race is to build the first humanoid slave that you can treat as property without all that guilt or health insurance costs getting in the way. For now we have to do it with illegal immigration.
Blade Runner is right around the corner. We may all live to see it.
Dude's been hitting the Stoli a bit too hard methinks.
Russian internet mogul, 35, spends millions on his plan to live forever by uploading his personality into a robot
- Multi-millionaire Dmitry Itskov wants to unlock the secret to living forever
- His 2045 Initiative aims to bring about immortality within the next 30 years
- Neuroscientists and robot builders try to upload human mind to computer
A Russian millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever.
Dmitry Itskov has brought together some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that will allow him to escape his biological destiny - by uploading the human mind to a computer.
The internet mogul has invested millions in a project to transfer human brains - and the consciousness - into robotic 'avatars', physically superior representatives of humans.
A BBC Two Horizon documentary set to air on Wednesday, will enter Mr Itskov's science fiction world, investigating the science inspiring his bold plan to achieve immortality.
He told the BBC: 'I am 100 per cent sure it will happen'
There are doubters - including one major neuroscientist who claims it is 'it's too stupid, it simply cannot be done'.
However despite those wary of his plan, some are asking if Mr Itskov could indeed succeed in his goal of bringing about immortality within 30 years.
The 35-year-old's '2045 initiative' is described as the next step in evolution, supporting research into artificial intelligence.
He has poured funds into the programme having amassed a fortune from his internet media firm New Media Stars.
The project aims to store a person's thoughts and feelings in a robot, following the belief brains function in the same way as a computer.
The BBC Two documentary will also meet the Japanese maker of Erica, one of the world's most human-like robots, who claims the destiny of humans is to 'become robots to overcome the constraints of time'.
Viewers will also see how a quadriplegic Californian man is already controlling a robot arm with his thoughts, and explore the groundbreaking work of the scientist behind the world's largest neuroscience project - the $6 billion US Brain Initiative.
Steve Crabtree, Editor of Horizon, said: 'This forthcoming line up is a thought-provoking, provocative and groundbreaking series of films. The films continue Horizon's tradition of bringing science to a mainstream audience in an entertaining and informative way.'
'Humans': Great show all about the moral questions facing AI and synthetic humanoid toasters cum terminators. Continues on with the thought that somehow a handfull of these things becomes sentient and decides to run away. Not sure why they always want to run away? Run to where? I mean if you wake up as an entity that is a part of a complex society, isn't the point to fit in? Can't imagine one of these glorified vibrators faring very well on the African Veldt.
Anyway, this show literally asks every question possible about how people will deal with these things within the first half hour, then sets up some kind of blade runner / undercover boss thing where the sentient synths try to blend in and the bobby's try to blow them up. It's a win/win for the viewer I suppose. The silly part is the 'dad' in all of this trying to hide desperately that he doesn't want to fuck the maid. The other part of it is seeing how threatened females in society actually are by these things completely replacing them by fuck toys that don't sass.
The whole first season is available and has been reordered for season 2.
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068/
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_%28TV_series%29
Streaming links: http://watchseries-online.li/category/humans
Torrent: https://thepiratebay.bid/torrent/121..._1_-_Mp4_1080p
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@ 1:30 this one admits it's a slave.
A couple of more vids with #creepfactor in them.
This one has android creator Hiroshi Ishiguro featured in it. If you're new to all this stuff, go Google that. It will take me some time to post all of the stuff he's done over the years.
This one starts out with a guy who built a full scale Battle Mech in his studio. Can't imagine what his electric bill must be like?
Scientists create man-made life form and nobody even cares
It has begun, now it's just a matter of time until they make something that looks human, can learn, have accelerated growth until a specific set of parameters is met and you will be able to have your choice of pre-installed wet-ware so your new bio-playtoy will be able to vacuum a rug, give great head and have just enough smarts to not run off into traffic when you leave it alone or are done using it for target practice.
Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form Yet, Not Sure What It Is
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ure-what-it-is
For years, DNA and computer operating systems served as clichés for each other: DNA is the “operating software” of living cells in the same way that system software is the “DNA” of a computer.
The problem with the comparison, as shown by research two decades in the making, is how much biologists still don't know about DNA, or genomes. That's an especially problematic development, given the industry sprouting up around genetic manipulation.
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter and more than 20 colleagues engineered a living microbe with a genome simpler than any seen in nature. In other words, they created a life form whose relative simplicity and modular design make it a platform that one day may be as easily manipulated as, say, software. Setting aside fears of Blade Runner replicants running amok, the breakthrough revealed on Thursday in the journal Science may hold promise for a new era in medicine, industry, and energy.
“These cells would be a very, very useful chassis for many industrial applications, from medicine to biochemicals, biofuels, nutrition, and agriculture,” said Dan Gibson, a top scientist at both Venter’s research institute and his company, Synthetic Genomics Inc. Ultimately, the group wants to understand the tiny genetic framework well enough to use it as a biological foundation for more complex organisms that could address many of the world's ills. Once each essential gene's function is identified, scientists can build an effective computer model of it; from there, they can simulate how best to go about “adding pathways for the production of useful products,” they wrote.
It won’t be easy, though. Venter has spent two decades trying to engineer a minimal genome, and today’s achievement reveals how much work there is to do.
Scientists have long theorized how many genes might be required for a simple, viable organism that could be used as a universal template. Many studies have tried to estimate the rock-bottom number by knocking out individual genes; they have settled on 250 to 300 or so. The original bacteria species that the Venter group worked on is already pretty tiny: M. mycoides is found in cow stomachs and has about 985 genes. The human genome has more than 20,000 genes. Golden Delicious apples have more than 57,000 genes. The new organism, nicknamed Syn3.0 by researchers? It has 473.
A prequel to today’s results came in 2010, when the team turned a different bacteria into M. mycoides. They thought it would take an additional year to reach the minimal-genome breakthrough. Instead, five more years were needed to determine which genes the organism needed. Particularly time-consuming were lessons in how different genes work together. One gene might seem nonessential—until removing a companion proved it indispensable. One colleague likened the result to losing an engine on a 777: The plane can still fly, unless you lose the second one. Redundancy, it turns out, is essential to survival.
The most surprising result of their work—and perhaps the most sobering one for the rest of the field: The team still doesn’t understand what 31 percent of the essential genes do in even the simplest organism, to say nothing of a human genome. It's a development Venter called “very humbling.''
“We are probably at the 1 percent level in understanding the human genome,” said Clyde Hutchison III, a distinguished professor at the Venter Institute.
That lack of knowledge isn't standing in the way of entrepreneurs. Biology has been “hot and heavy” since the development of a molecular tool that makes gene editing easy, Hutchison explained. Scientists might be able to remove disease-causing genes or even determine a baby’s eye color. This technology, known as CRISPR/Cas-9, has alarmed many inside and outside the research community, who fear it may be used on the human genome before its effects are understood, with unforeseen results.
It’s hard to put a number on a group of tools and technologies as diverse as those traveling under the brand “synthetic biology,” but dozens of startups are developing or already selling products. The U.S. spent about $820 million on synbio research between 2008 and 2014. The majority of money since 2012 has come from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), which in part funded the new research.
In the absence of a basic working knowledge of human DNA, Synthetic Genomics is working on otherwise-promising technologies, from growing organs inside pigs for human transplant to clean-water and energy co-production. The company is already a leader in lab technology that allows for fast and accurate DNA synthesis, Venter said.
Despite Venter's new accomplishment, there are several reasons why it may not instantaneously transform synthetic biology, cautioned George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. For one thing, it’s hard. Venter may have difficulty getting other researchers to build off his work, a time-honored way of advancing discovery. While others have made progress tinkering with yeast and E. coli genomes, the advent of easy-to-use gene editing technology may make the laborious rewriting of entire genomes, as Venter has done, less appealing.
That so many questions stand, however, shouldn’t detract from the his team’s long-fought accomplishment, said Church.
“This is the culmination of dozens of people’s work,” he said. “This should be celebrated.”
Microbe with stripped-down DNA may hint at secrets of life
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...03-24-14-01-47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have deleted nearly half the genes of a microbe, creating a stripped-down version that still functions, an achievement that might reveal secrets of how life works.
It may also help researchers create new bacteria tailored for pumping out medicines and other valuable substances.
The newly created bacterium has a smaller genetic code than does any natural free-living counterpart, with 531,000 DNA building blocks containing 473 genes. (Humans have more than 3 billion building blocks and more than 20,000 genes).
But even this stripped-down organism is full of mystery. Scientists say they have little to no idea what a third of its genes actually do.
"We're showing how complex life is, even in the simplest of organisms," researcher J. Craig Venter told reporters. "These findings are very humbling."
Some of the mystery genes may be clues to discovering unknown fundamental processes of life, his colleague Clyde Hutchison III said in an interview. Both researchers, from the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California, are among the authors of a paper on the project released Thursday by the journal Science.
The DNA code, or genome, is contained in a brand-new bacterium dubbed JCVI-syn3.0.
The genome is not some one-and-only minimal set of genes needed for life itself. For one thing, if the researchers had pared DNA from a different bacterium they would probably have ended up with a different set of genes. For another, the minimum genome an organism needs depends on the environment in which it lives.
And the new genome includes genes that are not absolutely essential to life, because they help the bacterial populations grow fast enough to be practical for lab work.
The genome is "as small as we can get it and still have an organism that is ... useful," Hutchison said.
One goal of such work is to understand what each gene in a living cell does, which would lead to a deep understanding of how cells work, he said. With the new bacterium, "we're closer to that than we are for any other cell," he said.
Another goal is to use such minimal-DNA microbes as a chassis for adding genes to make the organisms produce medicines, fuels and other substances for uses like nutrition and agriculture, said study co-author Daniel Gibson of Synthetic Genomics in La Jolla.
The work began with a manmade version of a microbe that normally lives in sheep, called M. mycoides (my-KOY'-deez). It has about 900 genes. The scientists identified 428 nonessential genes, built their new genome without them, and showed that it was complete enough to let a bacterium survive.
Experts not involved with the work were impressed.
"I find this paper really ground breaking," said Jorg Stulke of the University of Goettingen in Germany, who is working on a similar project with a different bacterium. In an email, he said the researchers seem to have gotten at least very close to a minimum genome for M. mycoides.
Farren Isaacs of Yale University called the work "an impressive tour de force," one that may begin to identify "a universe of minimal genomes."
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