Clipmarks | ouyangwulong's Discussing AGI and Futuristic Computing collection

How & Why Chrome will Conquer the World

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:41:53 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: So this is a hilarious little comic book Google put together to explain Chrome, which I think represents a very important leap towards cloud computing, which I think is the future of both comunications and computing.

We can see this leap in my three favorite features unique to Chrome...

Clip Source: www.google.com

Tags: chrome, ie, microsoft can go to hell, vista, evil, google, savior, cloud computing, facebook, firefox

Field Testing Third World Computers

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:00:33 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: This is a very interesting experiment in access and education. The most interesting part is that the children are expected to fix the computers themselves!

Actually, I learned a lot of stuff this way - by tinkering - but is it realistically applicable to all the kids?

If it works, it will work brilliantly.

It is certainly a new way of networking information. Maybe clipmarks should get in on something like this...

Clip Source: www.iht.com

MIT spinoff's little green laptop computers a hit in remote Peruvian village

ARAHUAY, Peru: Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.

But no competitor approaches the XO in innovation. It is hard drive-free, runs on the Linux operating system and stretches wireless networks with "mesh" technology that lets each computer in a village relay data to the others.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

there is no tech support program. Students and teachers will have to do it.

"What you want is for the kids to do the repairs," said Negroponte, who believes such tinkering is itself a valuable lesson. "I think the kids can repair 95 percent of the laptops."

Mendoza, the psychologist, is overjoyed that the program stipulates that kids get ownership of the laptops.

Artificial General Intelligence: Barking up the wrong tree?

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:05:37 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: The question is: could Kurzweil and Goertzel's Aritifical General Intelligence genuinely surpass the human brain? Or is ti simply mimicing it?

Their solution still relies on computation, but there is no evidence that the human brain makes any such calculations to arrive at its conclusions.

If so, what needs to be done in order to develop a computer system that works the same way as the human brain?

And what about the mother of all conundrums: free will. Goertzel pretends it doesn't exist at all, but how could we motivate even a self-aware computer to do things on its own initiative?

Clip Source: www.agiri.org

Artificial General Intelligence and its
Potential Role in the Singularity

Ben Goertzel, PhD
June, 2006

Social institutions that we take for granted – like work and school – are going to disappear, as obsolete as the pack of pygmies hunting in the jungle.

This is the possibility of creating minds vastly more powerful – and vastly better, in various senses – than human minds. This is what I call Artificial General Intelligence – to distinguish it from the special-purpose “narrow AI” programs that contemporary researchers are creating to carry out various tasks like chess playing, car driving and so forth.

Genetic engineering, quantum computing, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfacing, artificial intelligence – none of these Singularity-enabling technologies are discrete, separate entities

An example of a system-specific AGI safety issue is the question of safe self-modification

A mind is a system for recognizing patterns in itself and in the world – nothing more and nothing less

Tags: ben goertzel, ray kurzweil, artifical intelligence, creativity, knowledge, science of the mind, john searle, computer science, philosophy

Clipcasts & The Shape of the Net to Come

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:31:14 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: It's amazing how the press out there, and most of the public, seems to have missed the big picture of what's going on here. They think this is about social networking and internet advertising. They are dead wrong.

We're all involved in a much bigger game now, and the pieces are the very building blocks of society's future.

I've clipped a few of the puzzle pieces together to make my point:

1. Cold War: Open v. Closed software

...leads to...

2. Show down between Cloud computing vs. PC software

...meanwhile...

3. Microsoft (PC OS) muscles in on Facebook (Internet Platform for Web Apps.)

...and on the other side...

4. Google (the world's leading search engine) muscles in on Firefox (the world's leading alternative web browser.)

...and then...

5.) Clipmarks, total wild card, leapfrogs over facebook into decentralized internet platforms with Clipcasts!

Something VERY VERY BIG is afoot!

Clip Source: www.iht.com

We're living in a cold war between open and closed systems

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Google gets ready to rumble with Microsoft

Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, accessible over the Web by an array of wired and wireless devices — a setup known as cloud computing. Microsoft sees a Web future as well, but one whose center of gravity remains firmly tethered to its desktop PC software

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Microsoft buys into the new world of Facebook

Last week, Microsoft bought a tiny share of the Web site Facebook that gave it an overall value of some $15 billion.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Google casts a shadow as Firefox plans for the future

Looming over all of this competitive planning is Google, the search engine giant that has been writing most of the royalty checks that finance Firefox. That contract expires next year and no one knows whether Google will continue as an ally - or possibly emerge as a challenger.

Clip Source: biz.yahoo.com

Clipmarks Launches Version 3.0: Evolving from Centralized Community to Distributed Platform for Sharing Clips

Tags: clipmarks, clipcast, google, microsoft, facebook, firefox, future, open source, cloud computing, tribute to ornette coleman

The Spread of Ideologies: ClipCast v. The Rise of Bengali Islam

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:36:25 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: Although I've always enjoyed using clipmarks as a tool to research social trends and ideologies, with Clipcast, Clipmarks is rapidly becoming a subject worthy of such research itself.

Consider this: The effect of making Clipmarks (and it's community of ardent followers) mobile, and capable of organizing in more than one internet context is remarkably similar to the way in which Islam spread over much of South and South Eastern Asia.

For those who are interested, I heartily suggest reading Richard Eaton's "The Rise of Islam on the Bengal Frontier." I've clipped its thesis here. It is one of the most interesting and insightfully approaches to understanding the interaction between social and ideological groups. It goes well beyond the coarse but popular theories of war and mercantilism in explaining the reason for Islamic success in a part of the world that America has failed miserably at influencing.

Clip Source: biz.yahoo.com

Clipmarks Launches Version 3.0: Evolving from Centralized Community to Distributed Platform for Sharing Clips

New ClipCast Technology Lets Users Instantly Share Information They Clip from the Web with Their Friends on Facebook, MySpace, Blogs or Other Web Pages

Eric Skiff

Our new Facebook app is at the core of our initiative to open the Clipmarks experience to people wherever they and their friends are on the Web

Clip Source: www.scholarswithoutborders.in

Clip Source: content.cdlib.org

The other great theme of the premodern period was the establishment and evolution of Islamic society and culture in Bengal. It would be wrong, however, to view Islam as some impersonal agency

assimilating great numbers of people into a single framework of piety. Rather, the religion was itself continuously reinterpreted as different social classes in different periods became its dominant carriers

In short, Bengal’s eastern zone was not only an agrarian and political frontier, but also a cultural one, as Islam became locally understood as a civilization-building ideology

Tags: islam, clipmarks, clipcast, bengal, history, philosophy, religion, internet, clash of civlizations

The Evolution of Evolution: how culture changes genes

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:38:38 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Not, as stated, a new idea: been around a long time in complexity theory, and quantum consciousness theory, for instance. This is a short, pithy statement of the claim, read it in a couple of minutes.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Now we're in the midst of the next mutation in evolutionary theory: Human evolution didn't slow as we advanced from nature to culture. It accelerated and changed. Culture, born of natural selection, became natural selection's driving force.

This is the message of a new study of the human genome. If true, it radically complicates the debate between nature and nurture. The question is no longer simply whether our genes are the source of civilization, but whether they're also its product.

Organisms evolve in response to changing environments. This can lead, paradoxically, to the evolution of traits that change the environment. Once that happens, the process becomes dialectical, and its speed increases, because culture changes more rapidly than nature does.

Much of what now passes for "natural selection" isn't exactly natural. It's social.

It may be true that today's God a human creation. But so, in a way, is today's evolution.

Volvo Removes the Weakest Link — You

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:20:40 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Volvo Safety Tech Removes the Weakest Link — You

Volvo's not kidding about safety. Apparently out to set some sort of record, the Swedish automaker has announced three new experimental vehicle safety systems at the same time:

Automatic braking to avoid pedestrians;

Automatic steering to stop head-on collisions; and

Communication between cars to reduce traffic pile-ups

The first system (above left), which builds on Volvo's existing Collision Warning with Auto Brake system (designed to mitigate vehicle-to-vehicle collisions), uses wide-angle radar to detect objects in front of and around the car, helping the driver "see" pedestrians. When it spots one, a red warning light flashes on the windshield to alert the driver. If the driver still doesn't react to avoid our hapless pedestrian, the car will take matters into its own hands and apply the brakes automatically.

Collision Avoidance by Auto Steering

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication

Tags: cars, safety, volvo, you, the weakest link, technology

Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:46:05 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.gurteen.com

Creativity and innovation concern the process of creating and applying new knowledge. As such they are at the very heart of knowledge management. Knowledge management, however, is an emerging discipline and creativity and innovation need to be thought about in this new context. This paper creates a framework in which to discuss these concepts. It goes on to explore how our creativity is ‘blocked’ in a variety ways, including deep-seated beliefs about the world. It is often thought, for example, that creativity is a serious analytical task limited to certain disciplines such as R&D. This could not be further from the truth. Finally this paper takes a brief look at two tools to support knowledge management and creativity - one in the human domain – dialogue and the other in the technology domain – groupware.

knowledge management needs to fundamentally focus on creativity and innovation.

Tags: knmowledge, knowledge management, learning, creativity, innovation

Reasons to like ClipCast according to ouyangwulong...

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:24:33 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I've done a lot of writing about my perspective on ClipCast, but i just read some really insightful comments by ouyangwulong that said it better than i have been able to. Wanted to share them with everyone by clipping them.

Thank you ouyangwulong. Not just for having such a positive perspective on it, but for truly tapping into and expressing the essence of what it's all about. It was truly a great feeling to read your comments.

By the way, i'm eric goldstein on facebook. Would love to see the "other side" of your clips...friend me if you like

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Here's why I like clipcast: it broadens the clipmarks community. I love my clip-friends, but I have other friends out there in the real world. I also like talking with them about what I read, and although I have convinced some of them to come over to clipmarks, I have to say this makes clipmarks much more accessible and a useful tool for communication with people in the outside world.

Using the clipcast, we can spread this thoughtful medium to other sites on the web, and hopefully bring a little bit of civility as we go!

Another reason to put clipcasts on your websites is that it helps you manage your different internet identities.

Clip casts are the solution. I can create a separate clipcast for Facebook, one that reflects the part of my clips that fit with the social aspect of my persona that is established there.

Clipmarks brings out the best in the internet, but a few well organized clip casts will bring out the best in Clipmarks

Tags: clipcast, clipmarks

Clipcast & Clipmarks 3.0: The Good, the Bad, and well, nothing ugly, actually.

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:23:48 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: Hey, Eric, Eric, Eric, Derek, and Adam-ek

Nice job on the latest clipdate. I the new format is cool, easier on the eyes, and for some reason now Firefox will spell check in the title field, which is important for someone like me, who spells on a third grade level. Also, I love being able to use clipmarks to communicate what I'm reading with my real world friends on Facebook.

BUT!

I miss being able to see the tags (often witty) and comments (essential) on the same page as the clip.

Visually uniting the commentary with the evidence is one of the things that I think is most responsible for the comparatively civil tone of discourse on clipmarks, and I hope you bring that back.

Next thing I want is to be able to somehow clip things I'm reading.

Hey, could you have a feature where I just type in a thousand words of text and a citation so I can use clipmarks to keep track of my paper reading as well?

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

What is a ClipCast?

A ClipCast is a portable player for clips. You can put a ClipCast on Facebook, MySpace, your blog or anywhere else you want to share your clips. Everything you clip will automatically be added to your ClipCast. All of the functionality of Clipmarks is built into the ClipCast, including the ability to add comments and see clips by your favorite users.

You can create and customize as many ClipCasts as you like. If you have already joined Clipmarks, you can see your ClipCast at yourusername.clipmarks.com. To start your own ClipCast, sign up now.

Watch the demo or learn more in the ClipCast FAQ

Facebook + Microsoft: There goes the Neighborhood

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:23:13 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: Hearing that Microsoft is buying into Facebook, for me, is like hearing that Billy Corgan is going to "contribute" to your favorite band's next album.

Too bad, and I kinda liked facebook. I just can't wait for all those wonderful Microsoft adds to start bombarding me every time I log in. Hip and classy, for sure! Yuck!

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Microsoft to pay $240 million for stake in Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook.

The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values the three-year-old Facebook, which will bring in about $150 million in revenue this year, at $15 billion.

The deal ends two months of jockeying between three major Internet players for the right to invest in and forge close ties with Facebook.

As part of the deal, Microsoft will sell the banner ads appearing on Facebook outside of the United States, splitting the revenue with it. Last year, Microsoft struck a deal with Facebook to run banner ads on the site in the United States through 2011.

Tags: microsoft, facebook, evil empire

Cyberspace: The Great Equalizer

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:16:51 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Internet revolution reaches India's poor

BANGALORE: Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, workmen like Manohar, a house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients' computers on the job here.

So you can imagine Manohar's wonder as he sat dictating his date of birth, phone number and work history to a secretary who entered them into a computer. Afterward, a man took his photo. Then, with a click of a mouse, Manohar's very own social-networking page popped onto the World Wide Web, the newest profile on Babajob.com.

Babajob, an Indian start-up aiming to bring the Facebook/MySpace revolution to the world's poor, is just one example of an unanticipated byproduct of the outsourcing boom: Entrepreneurs and large multinationals are making India a hub of computer innovation targeting the poor.

Tags: internet, equality, india