Are we on the brink of creating artificial life?
Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot
The OpenWorm team from California is making a ‘digital’ worm (top right). Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans (bottom right), the simplest organism we know of, but has similarities to humans. By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life. They have implanted the digital ‘mind’ of the worm into a Lego machine (left). In a video it acts and behaves just like the worm would in the real world. Next year the team will allow people to download their own digital worm.
ROBOTS COULD KILL US ALL IN FIVE YEARS, SAYS ELON MUSK
In a recent comment on futrology site Edge, SpaceX and Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence.
In his comment he feared that the risk of ‘something seriously dangerous happening’ could be in as few as five years.
Although he doesn’t go into detail, he alludes to ‘digital superintelligences’ and internet bots as being among the potential problems facing humanity.
In the comment he says the pace of progress in AI is ‘incredibly fast’.
He continued: ‘I am not alone in thinking we should be worried.
‘The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety.
‘They recognise the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the internet. That remains to be seen…’
A new species is about to be born as implants are switched on by a two-year-old boy
From deaf to dancing diva! The moment two-year-old boy hears his parents’ voices and music for the first time as cochlear implants are switched on
- Asher Goldberg from Phoenix, Arizona, was born deaf
- In February he had cochlear ear implants fitted and his stunned reaction to sound caught on camera
- Six months on, he is slowly mastering language and loves to dance
Please read these 102 pages of the booklet ‘Our mind in a controlled quantum Euclidean space?’ and understand why this kind of mixing technology with natural life is so dangerous for the future of mankind … a book which already has the nickname ‘The Blue-book LED’.
