http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id=4579 schrieb / wrote: Radio: The Ethics of Creating Consciousness: Next month, IBM is set to activate the most ambitious simulation of a human brain yet conceived. It’s a model they say is accurate down to the molecule. No one claims the ‚Blue Brain‘ project will be self-aware. But this project, and others like it, uses electrical patterns in a silicon brain to simulate the electrical patterns in the human brain — patterns which are intimately linked to thought. But if computer programs start generating these patterns — these electrical ‚thoughts‘ — then what separates us from them? Traditionally human beings have reserved words like ‚reasoning,‘ ’self-awareness,‘ and ’soul‘ as their exclusive property. But with the stirring of something akin to electronic consciousness — some argue that human beings need to give up the ghost, and embrace the machine in all of us. Marvin Minsky, Brian Cantwell Smith, and Paul Davies discuss this on WBUR radio. (The Connection, June 14, 2005) http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2005/06/20050613_b_main.asp

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id=4580 schrieb / wrote: Article: Robots putting their heads together: The key to getting robots to perform complex tasks may not be in making them smarter. Instead, it may be in getting a lot of dumb robots to act together. That’s the idea behind a project being led by the University of Pennsylvania, funded by a $5 million grant from the Department of Defense. The purpose of the Scalable Swarms of Autonomous Robots and Sensors project is to create software and tools that enable a person to direct a swarm or swarms of small robots. If it succeeds, the project would enable the creation of large groups of robots that can act intelligently, even though the robots making up the groups aren’t too bright. (Philadelphia Business Journal, June 10, 2005) http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2005/06/13/story1.html

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