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JAPAN'S ROBOT REVOLUTION. "Opening Japan’s official Robot Revolution Initiative Council on May 15, Abe called on the nation’s corporate sector to “spread the use of robotics from large-scale factories to every corner of our economy and society. Backed by 200 companies and universities and chaired by Mitsubishi Electric’s Tamotsu Nomakuchi, the council aims to expand robotics throughout Japanese industry, with a goal of growing sales from 600 billion yen ($4.9 billion) a year to 2.4 trillion yen by 2020." http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/japans-robot-revolution/ View in LinkedIn

“MIND CLONE is a digital copy of your mind outside of your body. I think Mind Clone will look like an avatar on the screen, talking, instead of a robot version. Mind Clones are 10-20 years away.” Am I talking about a law of physics here? Am I talking about defying gravity here? No. Am I talking about going faster than light? No. All I am doing here is talking about writing some good code.” https://lnkd.in/davFNXB View in LinkedIn

FRESH OUT. “Machine translates brainwaves into sentences. Scientists have taken a step forward in their ability to decode what a person is saying just by looking at their brainwaves when they speak. They trained algorithms to transfer the brain patterns into sentences in real-time and with word error rates as low as 3%. Previously, these so-called "brain-machine interfaces" have had limited success in decoding neural activity.” https://lnkd.in/dd6-tBm View in LinkedIn

ELON MUSK’S LACE "seems to be a mesh that would allow such AI to work symbiotically with the human brain. Signals will be picked up and transmitted wirelessly, but without any interference of natural neurological processes. Essentially, making it a digital brain upgrade. Imagine writing and sending texts just using your thoughts.” https://lnkd.in/dB6Z8tN View in LinkedIn

"DARPA Cortical Modem connects brain directly to computer for 'electronic telepathy and telekinesis'. Phillip Alvelda, chief of DARPA's Biological Technologies, told the conference how the device could replace all virtual reality glasses, such as the Oculus Rift, by bypassing the visual sensory system entirely." http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/darpa-cortical-modem-connects-brain-directly-computer-electronic-telepathy-telekinesis-1488476 View in LinkedIn

EMOTIONAL CONTROL. "A $70 million program will try to develop brain implants able to regulate emotions in the mentally ill. Now, as part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U.S. military, Carmena has a new goal: to use brain implants to read, and then control, the emotions of mentally ill people." http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527561/military-funds-brain-computer-interfaces-to-control-feelings/ View in LinkedIn

SEXBOTS (of course). "Artificial-intelligence expert and international chess champion David Levy professed that by 2050 robots “will have the capacity to fall in love with humans and to make themselves romantically attractive and sexually desirable to humans.” https://lnkd.in/dR3gNu2 View in LinkedIn

DIRTY SECRET. "For years it has been a dirty secret that one of the key drivers of new consumer technology is sex, pornography. The need to make 3G technology work - and work fast - is exposing that secret. 'Like it or not, pornography drives each new, convenient visual technology, and 3G, which combines powerful new media applications, will be no different." https://lnkd.in/dg5RQSK View in LinkedIn