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I finally got around to putting together another track of audio from The Singularity Summit. Continue reading →

Watson, the Jeopardy playing super-computer, is out to take on new challenges. Rather than reworking its algorithms for a chance to compete on say “Deal or No Deal, IBM executives have other ideas in mind. At The Singularity Summit 2011 … Continue reading →

Good news today for Yaron Samid and his company BillGuard. They’ve received $10 million in a Series B round of funding led by Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), and Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors).

Exhilarating, frustrating, muddled, tea-party-ish, revealing, revolting, liberal rationalist, and hyper-optimistic are just a few of the pithy comments I tapped into my magical (inside joke) Apple MacBook. And I hope not to hear the word exponential in general conversation for … Continue reading →

My seatmate, who had been to previous Singularity events, assured me that my mind would be blown away. He was quite right.And I’ve only been through the morning session.

I’ve been at more than a few singles event at the 92nd Street YMHA during my solo period. Just to be clear, the Singularity Summit that’s being held at the Y this weekend will bring together AI researchers, neuroscientists, mathematicians, … Continue reading →