“If the technological Singularity can happen, it will.”–Vernor Vinge
Ray Kurzweil might throw a fit over this.
Seeking Delphi, Episode #39: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art
January 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley
As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen. Lots of them. We first heard from him on Seeking Delphi in an exclusive interview after his SXSW 2018 Intelligent Future keynote, titled The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing. He was just about to announce the launch of Strangeworks, a quantum computing software company. In this episode, we follow up with whurley to assess the progress of Strangeworks and the state of the art in quantum computing;
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Episode #9: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art, with whurley
You Tube Slide Show of Episode #39
Unedited YouTube video of Zoom interview for podcast #39
Find the 2018 SXSW interview with whurley, HERE.
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Cosmic Quote #104
May 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
“The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt”–Peter Diamandis”
I had the great pleasure of meeting the illustrious Dr. Diamandis at the X Prize foundation a couple of weeks ago. Too bad he isn’t a super villain, “The diabolical Dr. Diamandis” has a great aliterative ring to it.
Shameless self promotion department–here is the link to my Seeking Delphi™ podcast with interviews recorded at the X Prize Foundation Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap, April 29-30, 2019.
Seeking Delphi™ Podcast #27: Future Driving, Part Two, Flying Cars.
December 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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“The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”–Elon Musk
“We wanted flying cars; what we got is 140 characters.”–Peter Thiel
Well, guess what? We now have 280 characters, and we may finally be getting flying cars. Well, some of us may get the flying cars. They clearly won’t be mass market cheap for a very long time, if ever. Part 2 of the Seeking Delphi™ Future Driving series presents an interview with Kaushik Rajashekara. He is a University of Houston professor and IEEE fellow who has been tracking the subject for decades. Me? I’ve been vaguely following it ever since The Jetsons.
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Future Driving, Part 1, Self-Driving Cars,with Alex Wyglinski here.
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Episode #27: Future Driving, Part 2, flying Cars, with Kaushik Rajashekara
YouTube slide show of Episode #27. Captioning recommended.
Terrafuggia TF-x click for video
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Cosmic Quote #101
September 14, 2018 by 3 Comments
“What will kill us first, artificial intelligence or natural stupidity?’–Habib Haddad
I’m not sure if it matters whether we give a damn. Time will tell. No further comment necessary.
Seeking Delphi–Podcast #23, A Conversation with Joanne Pransky, Robot Psychiatrist.
July 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“I can’t imagine a future without robots.”–Nolan Bushnell
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In the popular HBO series Westworld, robotic hosts are depicted as being placed into a kind of psychiatric analysis by their creators. Could this actually happen one day? Joanne Pransky thinks it will. She bills herself as the World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist® (yes, she even registered that title!). She was dubbed the real life Susan Calvin by Isaac Asimov, after the robot psychologist he created in his classic 1950 short story anthology, I, Robot. In this episode of the Seeking Delphi™ podcast, host Mark Sackler talks to her about this and other significant issues in the man/machine relationships to come.
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Asimov with Pransky c.1989
Pransky and friend.
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Podcast #23 A Conversation With Joanne Pransky, Robot Psychiatrist
YouTube slide show of podcast #23 with Joanne Pransky
Cover of a 1950’s edition of Asimov’s I, Robot
Sofia
SXSW 2018 Minicast #2 Redux: Can We Create Consciousness In A Machine?
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Seeking Delphi: SXSW minicast #2, Can We Create Consciousness in a Machine?
March 14, 2018 by 4 Comments
My first foray into the SXSW mega festival and conference has been a memorable one. In covering the Intelligent future track for Seeking Delphi™ and Age of Robots magazine I’ve been able to meet and mingle with some of the smartest thinkers on the planet. The post below is re-blogged, containing links to two podcasts recorded and produced on site in Austin. I also had the amazing experience of gaining a personal interview with tech guru whurley (William Hurley). That will be posted in the next couple of days and will be expanded into a feature in Age of Robots.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”–Albert Einstein
For anyone who has watched the HBO series Westworld, the questions about creating machine consciousness run much deeper than “can we.” These include, should we? How will we treat it? How will it feel about its station as artificial life? Will we be able to control it, and is that ethical? And most profoundly, how will that change what it means to be human? The questions go beyond ethical to existential, and they were all addressed in the SXSW Intelligent Future track in a panel titled Can We Create Consciousness In A Machine? Not surprisingly, there were two techno-philosophers on the panel to explore these issues. They are David Chalmers, with NYU’s Center for Brain an Mind Consciousness, and Susan Schneider, with the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Connecticut. This session was part of the IEEE Tech for Humanity series at SXSW. My thanks to Interprose and IEEE for helping to arrange the interviews.
In this Seeking Delphi™ minicast, I speak with both of them about some of these issues. The third panelist mentioned in the podcast is Allen Institute physicist, Kristoff Koch.
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David Chalmers
Susan Schneider
Special Edition SXSW 2018 mini-cast #2.
YouTube slide show of Seeking Delphi™ SXSW 2018 minicast #2
In case you missed it, the YouTube slide show link for SXSW 2018 minicast #1, on covering sessions on quantum computing and self-driving car safety, is below.
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Seeking Delphi: 3D Printing Explosion: Cars,Boats, Homes, Even Human Bodies
March 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Another highlight from my Seeking Delphi blog and podcast. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or YouTube or listen via the audio file embedded in each accompanying web page.
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”– Jim Rohn
I can’t say for sure if the quote above was intended literally, but it is now becoming literally true. The applications of additive manufacturing–better known as 3D printing–are expanding to include food, body parts, cars, and even entire buildings. In this episode of the Seeking Delphi™ podcast, I talk with one of the gurus of this technology, Dr. Paul Tinari, of JOOM3D.com . He’s working on a project the scope of which would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
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Episode #7, Additive Manufacturing: We Are What We Print 21:07
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Russian space agency recruiting cosmonauts for 2031 lunar landing mission
Ray Kurzweil revises his singularity forecast to 2029
The U.S. military seeks to “understand” its autonomous machines
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Seeking Delphi: The Abolition of Aging, Part 1
March 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Note: In a shameless act of self promotion, I will occasionally share posts from my futurist blog/podcast Seeking Delphi on this site. Today’s post is a reblog of the first podcast episode, originally aired in last January, on one of the most controversial topics facing futurists–and humanity–today.
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don’t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”–Woody Allen
In episode one of Seeking Delphi, the podcast, I talk with David Wood, chair of London Futurists, about his book The Abolition of Aging. Relevant links to this weeks’ show below the audio track. This is part 1 of a two part program. This week: can we do it? Next week: Should we do it, and if we do it, what are the implications? These podcasts are now available for subscription on YouTube and iTunes.
David Wood
Episode #1: The Abolition of Aging, Part 1; running time 26:9
The Abolition of Aging by David Wood
Immortality by Dr. Ben Bova
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Cosmic Quote #76–YouTube and Seeking Delphi Podcast
February 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
“I’m sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.”–Peter Capaldi
Yeah…um….NO! I doubt it. Shakespeare had his anachronisms, but that’s pushing it. As for the animals in my household, well, they’ll have to be satisfied with Tales of a Veterinary Spouse. But my Seeking Delphi podcasts are indeed now on YouTube, as well as iTunes. All the subscription links are below. Way below. Below the embedded videos of the first three podcasts. Sorry, no funny cat pictures–this stuff is too important to get flippant. Our future depends on it.
Seeking Delphi YouTube Channel
The Millennium Conjectures™ 