Autonomous machines, networks and robots will self-improve in the future

Autonomous machines, networks and robots will self-improve in the future by publishing their own upgrade suggestions on the Internet, says Sandor Veres of the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Engineering and the Environment. This leap to increased autonomy will be facilitated by machines and humans publishing information. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/U8W8l. 

Block diagram of knowledge generation, sharing between humans and machines, and its distribution via publications (credit: S.M. Veres).

How computers can mimic human 3-D vision

Researchers at Purdue University have developed 2 new techniques for computer-vision technology that mimic how humans perceive 3-D shapes. The techniques, heat mapping and heat distribution, apply mathematical methods to enable machines to perceive 3-D objects by mimicking how humans perceive 3-D shapes by instantly recognizing objects no matter how they are twisted or bent. (...). Know more at http://goo.gl/SiEPo.

Transcendent Man, the film about the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil

Transcendent Man by director Barry Ptolemy introduces the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, the renowned futurist who journeys the world offering his vision of a future in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are billions of times more intelligent... all within the next 30 years. Read more on http://goo.gl/uew03.

TIME: 10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil

Veja o vídeo em http://goo.gl/y8cTQ (Fonte: YouTube).

"American author, inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence and the human race. His first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990, put forth his theories on the results of the increasing use of technology and notably foresaw the explosive growth in the internet, among other predictions. Later works, 1999's The Age of Spiritual Machines and 2005's The Singularity is Near outlined other theories including the rise of clouds of nano-robots (nanobots) called foglets and the development of Human Body 2.0 and 3.0, whereby nanotechnology is incorporated into many internal organs." (...) - Fonte: Wikipedia.