Five Science and Technology Predictions for the Next 10 Years - Zoltan Istvan

“A third of people will post on Facebook and other social media after they die

In 10 years time, Facebook won’t just be Facebook, it will be a virtual reality system, and personal avatars will continue to post after a person is dead - and even keep wandering around VR worlds mimicking the person.

Companies like ETER9, Terasem and Lifenaut will provide the type of software where people can download themselves and the amount they want to contribute to social media, giving family members and loved ones still alive a sense that the deceased is still present in their lives.”

Five Science and Technology Predictions for the Next 10 Years
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You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income

“Boston Consulting Group predicts that by 2025, up to a quarter of jobs will be replaced by either smart software or robots. Gartner, a technology research firm, ramps that estimate up and predicts that one third of all jobs will be eliminated by 2025, while University of Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne say a grand total of 47 percent of US jobs will be automated by 2033. Worried that your job is on the chopping block? You’re probably right.”

You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income
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Talking About Basic Income - and AI

“Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are among 8,600 people who have signed an open letter about the potential dangers of AI. The letter describes the need for safeguards to ensure that AI is positive rather than neutral in respect to purpose, but it also calls for the maximization of the societal benefit of AI. In short, it calls for social responsibility.”

You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income
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The Last Frontiers of AI: Can Scientists Design Creativity and Self-Awareness?

“In AI there were these two schools of thought that were competing and butting heads politically and financially. There’s the school of thought that is top-down, logic, programming, and search approach, and then there is the machine learning approach.

The machine learning approach says, “Forget about programming robots, forget about programming AI, you just make it learn, and it will figure out everything on its own from data.” The other school of thought says, “We sit down, write algorithms, and program the robot to do what it needs to do.””

The Last Frontiers of AI: Can Scientists Design Creativity and Self-Awareness?
http://singularityhub.com/2016/04/20/the-last-frontiers-of-ai-can-scientists-design-creativity-and-self-awareness/
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