#health

#health  

Originally shared by Singularity 2045

"Wellframe combines mobile technology and artificial intelligence to extend the provision of care from the hospital to the home, empowering patients to optimize their recovery and helping providers thrive in an evolving payment landscape."

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http://gigaom.com/2012/10/25/rock-healths-new-class-of-startups-apps-apis-artificial-intelligence/

#technology #onlineshopping #onlineshop #onlinepayment

#technology   #onlineshopping   #onlineshop   #onlinepayment  

Originally shared by EuroTech

The Convenient Bank Combicard For Your Wallet
by Sophie Wrobel, EuroTech; Germany

Monte Paschi’s latest bank card lineup presents a solution that convenience shoppers will love: an all-in-one bank card for credit card, debit card, cash card, and online transaction generator combined into one integrated piece of plastic.

Features:
• Credit card (Mastercard) functionality, including magnetic stripe, card number, and signature strip
• Debit card (Maestro) functionality, including electronic chip and card number
• NFC chip for contact-free payment
• Integrated TAN generator for online purchases

One secure step backwards?
Perhaps the most striking “feature” about this card is its integrated Transaction Number (TAN) generator. Online shoppers across Europe are no stranger to the TAN generation, which involves using a physical device to generate a unique transaction number based on some details from the transaction, date/time, and a key located on the physical hardware. That combination provides for additional security, and additional consumer annoyance.

The Combicard provides that magic number from a push button – without the need to enter transactional data. While that still requires a physical device and not just a memorized passphrase, there is no transaction-specific data involved in the TAN generation, and as such we’re back to the security level of indexed TANs (iTANS), in which consumers selected a TAN from a printed out sheet of paper with a long list of TANs on it. The problem there, of course, is that an evil party could, with sufficient computing power and stolen knowledge, compute the TAN list – but a transaction-specific data seed, the window in which the TAN is valid would be too small for a hacker to compute and use the TAN.

Convenience vs. security
We can probably expect the general population welcoming this new line of cards: consumers want convenience. And most people don’t understand the security mechanism, and therefore also not how, or why, the new card could be somewhat less secure.

Website: www.montepaschi.be/en/PaschiCombo.html
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Originally shared by Singularity 2045

"The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers. The Terminator movie trilogy, for example, featured Skynet, a self-aware artificial intelligence that served as the trilogy's main villain, battling humanity through its Terminator cyborgs. Among technologists, it is mostly "Singularitarians" who think about the day when machine will surpass humans in intelligence. The term "singularity" as a description for a phenomenon of technological acceleration leading to "machine-intelligence explosion" was coined by the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1958, when he wrote of a conversation with John von Neumann concerning the "ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue." More recently, the concept has been popularized by the futurist Ray Kurzweil, who pinpointed 2045 as the year of singularity. Kurzweil has also founded Singularity University and the annual Singularity Summit."

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-consequences-of-machine-intelligence/264066/

#humor

#humor

Originally shared by TECHNICS


Cartoon of the day by Farley Katz. . . goo.gl/sFWqn

Volkswagen’s Car Towers at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany

Volkswagen’s Car Towers at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany ... Amusing Planet - "The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... One of the prime attraction at the Autostadt is the two gleaming car parking towers of glass and galvanized steel where cars are automatically moved from the Wolfsburg plant and on to the customer centre where they are collected by their owners. Each tower is 60 meter tall and houses 400 cars each and are the heart of vehicle delivery at the Autostadt. The two towers are connected to the Volkswagen factory by a 700 metre underground tunnel. ..." more: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/volkswagens-car-towers-at-autostadt-in.html

Environment and Technology Public Lecture Series: Professor Tony Pipe

Environment and Technology Public Lecture Series: Professor Tony Pipe

Date: 15 November 2012
Venue: 1R026/R Block Café, Frenchay Campus, UWE Bristol

Professor Tony Pipe will deliver a lecture entitled; 'Advances in Human Robot Interaction: The Rise of the Machine?' as part of the FET Public Lecture Series.

There are now many predictions, coming from around the world, that the next few decades will see a very great rise in the number of robots created for assisting us in the workplace and at home. There are many drivers for these likely developments, but a major one is the increasing average age of the human population; in some parts of the world, soon there simply might not be enough young people around to look after the aged, even if that is what they wanted to spend their days doing.

#uwe   #robotics   #technology   #publiclectures   #bristol  
http://info.uwe.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?id=13398

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this deserves to be shared

Originally shared by Interesting Engineering

Creative ways to lace up shoes..
www.welldonestuff.com

#artificialintelligence #physics

#artificialintelligence   #physics  

Originally shared by edward diego

www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/

outrageous..

outrageous.. 

#germany   #propertyrights   #youtube  

Originally shared by Radek Suski

German #GEMA - Protecting artists for themselves

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Originally shared by ILLUSION


The Imagination. 3D mural art by John Pugh.

finally!

finally!
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Google Play Music and Movies purchasing reaches Google TV, patches a media strategy hole

Originally shared by Engadget

Google Play Music and Movies purchasing reaches Google TV, patches a media strategy hole 
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/08/google-play-music-and-movies-purchasing-reaches-google-tv/

#robotics

#robotics

Originally shared by Singularity 2045

"At the Creative Machines Lab we are interested in robots that create and are creative. We explore novel autonomous systems that can design and make other machines – automatically. Our work is inspired from biology, as we seek new biological concepts for engineering and new engineering insights into biology"
http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/front

#artificialintelligence #technology #future

#artificialintelligence   #technology   #future  

Originally shared by Singularity 2045

Often I encounter AI-doubters. They think AI will be impossible.

Human intelligence is not a mysterious, eternally indecipherable magic beyond the ability of rational investigation to unlock. AI will be possible. Already with Waston, Siri, Robot Adam, and many other examples we see how we are making steady progress. Maybe you think the year 2045 is too early? If you think it is too early perhaps you can at least accept how in the year 9012 (seven thousand years from now) AI equal to human intelligence will be possible?

Think about how far computation has progressed in only 30 years, since 1982. If you could go back in time with a fully functioning smart-phone to the year 1982 they would be utterly astounded regarding the capabilities of your smart device, they would almost think it impossible, perhaps they would thinking you were from 100 years in the future not a mere 30 years. Imagine if you could travel back in time 100 years to the year 1912, the people of that era would probably think you were an alien.

People often don't realise how quickly technology is accelerating. People don't realise how radically our world will change in only 30 years. If you don't accept the 2045 date at least accept advanced AI will one day be possible.

I am unsure why some people react so badly to the idea of AI being equal to human intelligence. There are people who do react with almost hostility to the concept of AI therefore it is good to see mainstream media coverage of AI (or AGI) via the Guardian, which states AI will be possible.

Previous overoptimistic predications are a big problem for doubters, thus there is a boy-who-cried-wolf type of ignorance and denial regarding the reality of current progress; it is incorrectly assumed that because AI predictions have been previously wrong, all AI predictions will always be wrong.

Here is what the Guardian says:

"Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible. That is because of a deep property of the laws of physics, namely the universality of computation. It entails that everything that the laws of physics require physical objects to do can, in principle, be emulated in arbitrarily fine detail by some program on a general-purpose computer, provided it is given enough time and memory."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/03/philosophy-artificial-intelligence