by cameron | Jun 22, 2007 | Podcast, science, singularity, technology, transhumanism
Steve Omohundro is a computer scientist and President of Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California. Since April 2007 he is a research advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. We chatted this morning about his timeline and vision for the possible ways that artificial intelligence will emerge and how he believes self-aware machines will benefit humanity.
Steve is going to be another of the speakers at SIAI’s conference in September 2007.
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by cameron | Jun 20, 2007 | technology
Here’s my latest Windows Vista problem. Any advice much appreciated!
by cameron | Jun 16, 2007 | Melbourne, singularity, Uncategorized
Been quiet for the last couple of days. Lots of travel and meetings.
Yesterday, Duncan Riley (aka Michael Arrington’s bitch), Jim Stewart and I spoke on a panel at the evolve conference in Melbourne. The panel was about content anarchy or something. We were the last session of the day and today Kimberley (the event organizer) told us that the audience voted our session the best of the day. I bet she says that to everyone though. Jim says his favourite moment was my dildo reference. Don’t ask. You had to be there.
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Caught a taxi to the airport with Ross Dawson and we had a great chat about the Singularity. Ross looks like an accountant but he’s really a major geek. He’s got a one minute video interview with my ungrateful protégé Rich Giles from his Web 2.0 event in Sydney last week. As usual, he didn’t invite me to speak. Hmph.
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For those of you who can’t get enough of me (which isn’t many of you), I’m on this week’s edition of The Father Bob Show. I’ll be taking over co-hosting the show again for a few weeks while Michaela takes a holiday. Someone want to start a book running on how long it will be before Bob and I get into a screaming argument over the evils of religion?
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What’s Cam reading at the moment, did I hear you ask?
Here’s a quick selection of the latest tomes added to the veritable mountain beside my bed:
by cameron | May 31, 2007 | energy, energy debate, environment, science, singularity, technology
Didn’t expect THAT, did you?
I’m prepping for my chat with Vint tomorrow morning and happened upon this recent interview with Kuzweil on CNNMoney where he says:
“These slides that Gore puts up are ludicrous,” says the man who once delivered a tech conference presentation as a singing computer avatar named Ramona. (That stunt was the inspiration for the 2002 Al Pacino movie “Simone.”) “They don’t account for anything like the technological progress we’re going to experience.”
I guess he means that accelerating technological progress will allow us to generate power using fossil-fuel substitutes and undo the damage we’ve already done. He might be right. I hope he is. I still don’t think that means we should stop doing what we can do now to change our behaviours though.
By the way… I’ve got something VERY exciting in the works for TPN’s audience regarding carbon offsets. Stay tuned.
by cameron | May 28, 2007 | technology
Chris Saad and his team have FINALLY released something. 🙂
What used to be called “Touchstone” is now called “Particls” and Chris was nice enough to put together a TPN-branded version of it for us.
What does it do?
It installs a funky scrolling toolbar up the top of your screen which shows you the latest posts from your favourite RSS feeds. In the case of the TPN version, it comes pre-installed with TPN’s OPML. You can add you own.
It kind of reminds me of Pointcast from 1996 – are any of you old enough to remember Pointcast? If you don’t, it was a classic rags to riches and back to rags story of Dot Com One. You need to check it out.
Particls, of course, is far cooler than Pointcast (thanks in part to RSS and broadband) and also does lots of other cool stuff – it watches what you surf and decided what you like to spend your attention on, then brings that content to the surface – you can decide whether or not you want it to show you everything or just the most important things, based on keywords, etc.
Anyway, mucking about with it for ten minutes will help you understand it a lot more than me blabbing on.
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Congrats to Chris and the team at Faraday Media.
by cameron | May 26, 2007 | technology
Well – we’ve been waiting for this for years. Des and I used to wish for it continuously on the Productivity Show. And now it’s here – The Mobile Version of Google Calendar.
The announcement on the Official Google Blog is here.
Finally I can say sayonara to Microsoft Outlook. My calendar will now be online, available to everyone to view my availability, I can view my friend’s calendars, organize group events, etc.
Blessed be Google. For they make shit happen while their competitors cling to 1995.
