1. Mind Mapping and
Machine Intelligence:
Are We at the Beginnings of a
Technological Singularity?

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5. 1. The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar,
uncommon or unusual 2. A point where all
parallel lines meet 3. A point where a measured
variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value

6. Hi Steve this is Ray Kurzweil- I wanna tell you about our
future. I estimate that by around 2045 we will have
expanded our own intelligence a billion fold by merging
with the artificial intelligence we’re creating
That’s such a profound transformation for human
civilization that we borrow this metaphor from physics
and we call it ‘Singularity’
In about 15 years we’ll get to a point where we’ll be
adding more time than is going by, indefinitely
extending life
There will be a hybrid of the biological and non-
biological, but the non-biological part of ourselves will
also be a part of our consciousness

7. “upload” our
brains into a
computer????
2.
Build the software
to host Brain
(Quantum
Computing/AI)
1.
Understand the
brain/map how
our thoughts
work physically

8. Sounds like a
load of science
fiction nonsense
to me …

9. December 17, 1903 December 25, 2013
Human Flight Capabilities

10. March 7, 1876 September 12, 2012
Human Communication Capabilities

11. Moore’s Law

12. "ever accelerating progress of technology and changes
in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance
of approaching some essential singularity in the history
of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know
them, could not continue".
John von Neumann

13. Arghhhhhhh what?!?!

14. 3D Printing 2013

15. And in the next 100 years?
+
= Molecular
Assemblers??

17. A conscious
computer??
You’ve got to
be kidding…
Oh man, I think
I’m having a fat
day today….

18. “There is no security against the ultimate development of
mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little
consciousness now. A mollusc has not much consciousness. Reflect
upon the extraordinary advance which machines have made during
the last few hundred years, and note how slowly the animal and
vegetable kingdoms are advancing. The more highly organized
machines are creatures not so much of yesterday, as of the last five
minutes, so to speak, in comparison with past time.”
Samuel Butler
1872

21. GF2045
“ a conference to transcend mortality by decoding
the brain and the blueprint of consciousness in order
for us to upload ourselves to an eternal future”
Neural dust

23. We’re gonna live forever, we’ll never
DIE?!WTF???!

26. Immortality
through Mind
Upload? Life
extension by
combatting
aging

27. The Next Frontier
“the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness,
memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric
signals, and to find them we need to build a supercomputer
that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.”
Henry Markram, Blue Brain

28. "You, your joys and sorrows, your
memories and your ambitions, your sense
of personal identity and your free will are
in fact no more than the behavior of a vast
assembly of nerve cells and their
associated molecules"
Francis Crick

29. Reverse Engineering/Hierarchical
Networks (Kurzweil)
Connectome- map neuron by neuron,
synapse by synapse.
The Brain as a
Quantum Computer

30. The very essence of what defines us?

31. Nanotechnology???
Brain emulation???
Artificial Intelligence???
Biotechnology??
Thales of Miletus 600BC

32. Dr.Obama’s
BRAIN Initiative
(Brain Research
through Advancing
Innovative
Neurotechnologies)
$110
MILLION

34. $110 million =
Darpa - $50 million
National Institutes of Health- $40 million
National Science Foundation - $20 million.

35. “DARPA’s mission is to
prevent technological
surprise to the US, but
also to create
technological surprise for
our enemies.”

36. ACTUV: A project to build an unmanned Anti-submarine warfare vessel.
Adaptive Vehicle Make: Revolutionary approaches to the design, verification, and manufacturing of complex defense
systems and vehicles.
ArcLight (missile): Ship-based weapon system that is capable of striking targets nearly anywhere on the globe. It is based
on the Standard Missile 3.
Battlefield Illusion[20]
BigDog/Legged Squad Support System: legged robots.[21]
Boeing X-37
Integrated Sensor is Structure
Boomerang (mobile shooter detection system): an acoustic Gunshot Location Detection System developed by BBN
Technologies for detecting snipers on military combat vehicles.
CALO or "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes": software
Combat Zones That See: "track everything that moves" in a city by linking up a massive network of surveillance cameras
Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System
DARPA XG: technology for Dynamic Spectrum Access for assured military communications
EATR An autonomous tactical robotic system
FALCON
High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System
High Productivity Computing Systems
Human Universal Load Carrier battery-powered human exoskeleton
MAHEM Molten penetrating munition
MEMS Exchange MEMS[clarification needed] Implementation Environment[citation needed]
MeshWorm, an earthworm-like robot.[22]
Mind's Eye: A visual intelligence system capable of detecting and analysing activity from video feeds.[23]
Persistent Close Air Support
Phoenix: A satellite project with the aim to recycle retired satellite parts into new on-orbit assets. Launches in 2016.[24]
Protein Design Processes
Proto 2: a thought-controlled prosthetic arm
Remote-controlled insects[25]
DARPA Silent Talk: A planned program attempting to identify EEG patterns for words and transmit these for covert
communications.[26]
Satellite Remote Listening System: a satellite mounted system that can eavesdrop on a targeted area on the surface of the
planet in coordination with satellite cameras.[citation needed] This project is in its infant stage.[when?]
SyNAPSE: Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics
System F6: Fractionated Spacecraft demonstrator
XOS: powered military exoskeleton
Transformer: flying armoured car[27]
UAVForge[28]
VTOL X-Plane[29]
Vulture
XDATA: Processing and analyzing vast amounts of information.[31]
The most interesting idea
incubator on Earth?

37. “performance
enhancement of
soldiers via either
implanted or external
electrodes linked to
electronic devices.”
“ brain-machine
interfaces that would
allow soldiers to
control a jet or other
weapon system
through thought
alone.”

39. Technological Singularity-.
Transhumanism?
Intelligent Machines?
Both/Neither?
And then what after??!!

40. 3.4×1038
(340 trillion, trillion,
trillion addresses)IPv6

41. IBM WATSON
2011

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