Minuteman Project
First half-hour guest,
Steven Gregory, an investigator for KFYI, discussed the
Minuteman Project, where he is currently embedded along the U.S./Mexico border in Arizona.
This effort to stem illegal immigration into the U.S. is being manned by volunteers who report any suspicious activity they witness by calling 911 or the Border Patrol, he said.
Gregory commented that he did not view the group as a militia (though a small segment were carrying guns) but rather as average Americans who were concerned that not enough was being done about this issue. For more, read Gregory's
blog.
Recap
Godlike Machines
Artificial brain designer and theoretical physicist
Prof. Hugo de Garis raised the issue of whether humanity should build godlike intelligent machines. Because of technological advances, he foresees a time in this century when artificial intelligence can be developed at the atomic level, and an object the size of an apple could surpass human brain capacity to the trillionth power.
At this point, he believes humanity will break into two groups. The Cosmists, who want to build these massively intelligent machines, and the Terrans who are against it. A third, smaller faction, he labeled as the Cyborgists, who want to merge with the artificial intelligence. Prof. de Garis believes the conflict between the Cosmists and the Terrans will be so extreme that wars could be fought over the issue.
The machines he called "artilects," may become so massively intelligent, said de Garis, that they would regard humanity, in the same way we look at insects, and they could be so powerful as to create their own universes. He boiled it down to the question: Do we build gods or do we build our potential exterminators? In an on-the-spot Fast Blast poll that was conducted, 56% sided with the Terrans, and 44% with the Cosmists.
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Hugo & the Brain Machine
Seen in the photo (
click for larger) is
Prof. Hugo de Garis and the
CBM (CAM Brain Machine), which was used to
build artificial brains (1997-2001). "It evolved neural
net circuits at electronic speeds. These were stored
in the memory of the CBM one by one, and then
connected together according to the designs of human
BAs (brain architects) to build artificial brains. The
CBM was then used to run the neural signaling of the
artificial brain in real time to control the behaviors
of robots, etc," de Garis explained.
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