25. Januar 2012
13. Dezember 2011
11. Dezember 2011
Die perfekte Pille
Warum leiden Menschen unter Depressionen? Warum quälen sie Angstzustände? Der Mediziner Florian Holsboer fahndet nach den Ursachen im Gehirn. Im Interview erklärt er, wie maßgeschneiderte Medikamente künftig gegen psychischen Schmerz helfen können.
25. November 2011
Is the Human Species Entering an Evolutionary Inflection Point?
Will the future of space exploration evolve into a hybrid of human and robotic expeditions, one which may change the face of humanity in space?
The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Is the human species entering another evolutionary inflection point?
Paul Davies, a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University, says in his new book The Eerie Silence that any aliens exploring the universe will be AI-empowered machines. Not only are machines better able to endure extended exposure to the conditions of space, but they have the potential to develop intelligence far beyond the capacity of the human brain.
10. November 2011
4. November 2011
Künstliche Muskeln
Muskeln aus einem neuen Kunststoff könnten die Robotik revolutionieren. In der Unterhaltungsindustrie wird ihr Einsatz bereits erprobt.
2. November 2011
Evolutionary Timeline for Machine Intelligence
“I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size about every fifteen million years since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Robot controllers double in complexity (processing power) every year or two. They are now barely at the lower range of vertebrate complexity, but should catch up with us within a half century.“
Hans Moravec, pioneer in mobile robot research and a founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
According to Moravec, our robot creations are evolving similar to how life on Earth evolved, only at warp speed. By his calculations, by mid-century no human task, physical or intellectual, will be beyond the scope of robots.
Here is a summary of his educated predictions for the future of robotics up until they can do everything we can do:
2015: Utility robots host programs for several tasks. Larger „Utility Robots“ with manipulator arms able to run several different programs to perform different tasks may follow single-purpose home robots. Their tens of billion calculation per second computers would support narrow inflexible competences, perhaps comparable to the skills of an amphibian, like a frog.
