Here is my list of podcasts.

NPR Science Friday - http://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/scifriaudio.xml
Harvard Buisness Review IdeaCast - http://hbsp2.libsyn.com/rss
Quirks and Quarks - http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml
The Naked Scientists -
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml
Large Hadron Collider -
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LargeHadronColliderPodcast?format=xml
60 Second Science - http://www.sciam.com/podcast/sciam_podcast_r_d.xml
Science Talk - http://www.sciam.com/podcast/sciam_podcast_r.xml
60 Second Psych - http://www.sciam.com/podcast/sciam_podcast_r_psych.xml
Guardian: Science Weekly -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/podcast/0,,329442289,00.xml
The Economist - http://feeds.feedburner.com/economist/audio_all
Econ Talk - http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml
Seminars on Long Term Thinking -
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml
NPR: Engines of our Ingenuity -
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510030
Stardate - http://stardate.org/feeds/rss.xml
Hack Highlights - http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/podcast/podcast.xml
Futures in BioTech! - http://leoville.tv/podcasts/fib.xml
Farmer's Almanac - http://feeds.almanac.com/farmerscalendar


Doug

There is an AI tie-in, since AI can be used to analyze and extrapolate data, and their stuff could then be used to visualize the results…

But that would be a different sort of product, I would say… and a great one … imagine a data-analysis toolkit whose interface was part of a virtual world…

You view your data in the virtual world, a la the wrlds.com methods

You choose methods to analyze your data, via a metaphor of choosing physical tools in the virtual world…

You apply the tools to the data and visualize the results

I note the “toolkit” metaphor is constantly used in the data-analysis world…

Finance would indeed be the first market to look at here, since there is a big and mature market existing for financial data analysis tools…

Hi Ben,

I'm looking forward to the meeting and to talking with you.

Others who don't know about it may attend if you submit it to DCTechEvents.com

Best wishes,
Ralph

All paths in life are equally valid.


Quoting Benjamin Goertzel <ben@...>:

> Hi all,
>
> We will have a DC Future Salon meeting on the theme of
> Cognitive Robotics, on Tues Feb 12 at 7PM
>
> Carl Leonard, of the NIH and Lired Corp., will discuss
> the current state of robotics technology.  Carl is a long-time
> robotics enthusiast with a quite thorough knowledge of
> the domain.
>
> Some not-fully-up-to-date info on Carl and his robotics
> experience is given here
>
> http://www.altum.com/bcig/events/seminars/2002/2002_07.htm
>
> which PLEASE NOTE is a page associated with another
> talk he gave a few years back, not with the current Future
> Salon talk.
>
> Then Ben Goertzel will briefly discuss current work
> relating AI and cognitive robotics, including probabilistic
> robotics such as was used in the winning entry in last
> year's DARPA Grand Challenge.
>
>
> Physical information is the same as the last few meetings:
>
> > Location:
> > 1133 19th St NW 9th Floor
> > Washington, DC 20036
> >
> > If you arrive between 7-7:15PM, someone will be
> > waiting downstairs to let you in. If you arrive later,
> > call my cell at 240-505-6518 and someone will
> > come down to let you in.
>
> Looking forward to seeing y'all again ;-)
>
> Ben Goertzel
> Coordinator, DC Future Salon
>

We will have a DC Future Salon meeting on the theme of
Cognitive Robotics, on Tues Feb 12 at 7PM

Carl Leonard, of the NIH and Lired Corp., will discuss
the current state of robotics technology.  Carl is a long-time
robotics enthusiast with a quite thorough knowledge of
the domain.

Some not-fully-up-to-date info on Carl and his robotics
knowledge is given here

http://www.altum.com/bcig/events/seminars/2002/2002_07.htm

which PLEASE NOTE is a page associated with another
talk he gave a few years back, not with the current Future
Salon talk.

Then Ben Goertzel will briefly discuss current work
relating AI and cognitive robotics, including probabilistic
robotics such as was used in the winning entry in last
year's DARPA Grand Challenge.

Physical information is the same as the last few meetings:

> Location:
> 1133 19th St NW 9th Floor
> Washington, DC 20036
>
> If you arrive between 7-7:15PM, someone will be
> waiting downstairs to let you in. If you arrive later,
> call my cell at 240-505-6518 and someone will
> come down to let you in.

Looking forward to seeing y'all again ;-)

Ben Goertzel
Coordinator, DC Future Salon

Hi all,

We will have a DC Future Salon meeting on the theme of
Cognitive Robotics, on Tues Feb 12 at 7PM

Carl Leonard, of the NIH and Lired Corp., will discuss
the current state of robotics technology.  Carl is a long-time
robotics enthusiast with a quite thorough knowledge of
the domain.

Some not-fully-up-to-date info on Carl and his robotics
experience is given here

http://www.altum.com/bcig/events/seminars/2002/2002_07.htm

which PLEASE NOTE is a page associated with another
talk he gave a few years back, not with the current Future
Salon talk.

Then Ben Goertzel will briefly discuss current work
relating AI and cognitive robotics, including probabilistic
robotics such as was used in the winning entry in last
year's DARPA Grand Challenge.


Physical information is the same as the last few meetings:

> Location:
> 1133 19th St NW 9th Floor
> Washington, DC 20036
>
> If you arrive between 7-7:15PM, someone will be
> waiting downstairs to let you in. If you arrive later,
> call my cell at 240-505-6518 and someone will
> come down to let you in.

Looking forward to seeing y'all again ;-)

Ben Goertzel
Coordinator, DC Future Salon

>
>  Any meeting scheduled for this month?
>
>  Doug
>

Thanks for asking!

I'm thinking to do a salon in February, but am exploring a couple
speaker/discussion-leader options, so I'll put off proposing a date
till I verify if one of these speakers is game...

-- Ben

Anyone have any interesting Podcasts that they listen to?  (I'll post
my list later).

Any meeting scheduled for this month?

Doug

Hi all,

Let's try a Future Salon gathering Nov 14 at 7PM ...

Location:
1133 19th St NW 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036

If you arrive between 7-7:15PM, someone will be
waiting downstairs to let you in.  If you arrive later,
call my cell at 240-505-6518 and someone will
come down to let you in.

-- Ben Goertzel

****

DISCUSSION TOPIC: AI and the Semantic Web

DETAILS:
If the Semantic Web existed -- if Web pages were marked
up with formal information describing their content in an
unambiguous form -- this would have several consequences...

1) the Web would become vastly easier to use, due to
the emergence of a variety of software tools utilizing
this markup

2) we'd be able to use simple AI tools to automate a lot
of tasks we do online everyday

3) AI's would be able to learn from the Web a lot more
easily, thus potentially bootstrapping us toward more
powerful AI (assuming appropriate AI architectures, etc.)

But how can we get the Semantic Web to exist?  There
seem to be two possibilities...

1) create AI's smart enough to mark up Web pages without
a huge error rate

2) somehow convince humans to mark up the content
they create

I can talk a bit about the challenges involved in 1 and my
approach to overcoming them.

But I'm also very interested in brainstorming on possibility
2, in case we can collaboratively come up with some
new ideas.

Radar Networks is one startup planning to address this
issue with their Twine product, but I can't say much about
it yet as it's not released (I'm on their beta test list, but
haven't gotten product access yet).

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14:02, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Welcome!
>
> The dcfuture group has been semi-dormant for a while, due to 2 of the
> organizers moving to the San Fran area, and the remaining organizer
> (me) being over-busy and failing to recruit any new co-organizers ;-)
>
> However, I'm thinking of trying for another salon meeting on Nov 13
> or 14.  Does that sound OK to people?
>
> -- Ben Goertzel

I should be in town that week.  I was wondering if the group was still active.

--
Harvey Newstrom
CISSP CISA CISM CIFI NSA-IAM GSEC ISSAP ISSMP ISSPCS IBMCP

I'm a new member.  What is the normal day (and location) for the
meetings?  I'd like to try to block out my calendar to attend.

I'm glad to have found this group, I recognize a few of you from my
lurking on the SL4 list.

Doug

Jim... thanks for posting Ben's podcast!

As follow up, Novamente, AGI and Virtual Worlds received a fair bit of
media after the Singularity Summit: http://www.novamente.net/media
...even a "How Stuff Works" article ;-)

However, my favorite is the following excellently documented blog post:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2007/09/24/artificial-general-intelligence-in-second-lif\
e

- Bruce
www.novamente.net/bruce

J R wrote:
> An outstanding meeting.
>
> Thanks for taking time to discuss AGI and your work in virtual world's (an
> area I continue to be interested in).
>
> For those interested in more 'Ben Speak' I ran across a May 3, 2007 podcast
> where Ben pontificates on AGI and life in general.  Runtime is 1 hr. 11
> mins. 16 secs.
>
http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/05/03/gday-world-234-artificial-inte\
lligence-with-dr-ben-goertzel-phd/
>
> Due to this list seeming to be harvested, I will send my contact info. to
> Ben's direct e-mail, and advise others to do the same.  Perhaps Ben can then
> distribute it directly to attendees vs. through the yahoogroups general
> list(an idea at least).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
>
> From: "bgoertzel" <ben@...>
> Reply-To: dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
> To: dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [dcfuture] Sep 5 salon follow-up: email addresses / names of
> attendees
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:58:54 -0000
>
> Hi,
>
> As we discussed at the Future Salon tonight, it would be nice to
> compile a (name, email address) database of everyone who attended ...
> but I sloppily forgot to distribute a piece of paper with that purpose
> in mind.
>
> So, it would be great if everyone who attended tonight would send me
> an email with your name and contact information.  (Mark Waser, Alan
> Grimes, Moshe Looks and Izabela Goertzel do not need to, as I already
> know you and have the info ;-)
>
> I will then compile the information into a list and email it to all
> the attendees...
>
> Thanks -- and thanks for showing up, it was a nice evening's
> discussion ;-)
>
> -- Ben Goertzel
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> To visit your group on the web, go to:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcfuture/
>
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>
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>
>
>
>
>

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039699&intsrc=hm_ts_head

An outstanding meeting.

Thanks for taking time to discuss AGI and your work in virtual world's (an
area I continue to be interested in).

For those interested in more 'Ben Speak' I ran across a May 3, 2007 podcast
where Ben pontificates on AGI and life in general.  Runtime is 1 hr. 11
mins. 16 secs.
http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/05/03/gday-world-234-artificial-inte\
lligence-with-dr-ben-goertzel-phd/

Due to this list seeming to be harvested, I will send my contact info. to
Ben's direct e-mail, and advise others to do the same.  Perhaps Ben can then
distribute it directly to attendees vs. through the yahoogroups general
list(an idea at least).

Cheers,

Jim


From: "bgoertzel" <ben@...>
Reply-To: dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
To: dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dcfuture] Sep 5 salon follow-up: email addresses / names of
attendees
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:58:54 -0000

Hi,

As we discussed at the Future Salon tonight, it would be nice to
compile a (name, email address) database of everyone who attended ...
but I sloppily forgot to distribute a piece of paper with that purpose
in mind.

So, it would be great if everyone who attended tonight would send me
an email with your name and contact information.  (Mark Waser, Alan
Grimes, Moshe Looks and Izabela Goertzel do not need to, as I already
know you and have the info ;-)

I will then compile the information into a list and email it to all
the attendees...

Thanks -- and thanks for showing up, it was a nice evening's
discussion ;-)

-- Ben Goertzel


Yahoo! Groups Links

To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcfuture/

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Hi,

As we discussed at the Future Salon tonight, it would be nice to
compile a (name, email address) database of everyone who attended ...
but I sloppily forgot to distribute a piece of paper with that purpose
in mind.

So, it would be great if everyone who attended tonight would send me
an email with your name and contact information.  (Mark Waser, Alan
Grimes, Moshe Looks and Izabela Goertzel do not need to, as I already
know you and have the info ;-)

I will then compile the information into a list and email it to all
the attendees...

Thanks -- and thanks for showing up, it was a nice evening's
discussion ;-)

-- Ben Goertzel

The DC transhumanists meet quarterly at 7:00 PM at the Hamburger Hamlet
in Crystal City on the first Thursday of the month (Mar, Jun, Sept, Dec).



re discussion at meeting: I didn't mean to suggest going back to neural
simulations, I meant try to identify the neural circuits that
effectively act as op amps, comparators, registers, data converters,
filters, etc, and then emulate those. =)

--
Opera: Sing it loud! :o(  )>-<

Hi all,

Just a reminder that there is a Future Salon meeting scheduled for
next Wednesday at 7PM, in the Dupont Circle office suite where
Novamente LLC is located.

Topics of discussion will be drawn from:
-- how to re-energize/revive the DC Future Salon
-- AI in Virtual Worlds (I'll be giving a talk on this at the
Singularity Summit the following weekend, so it will be fun to
trot some of the ideas out for y'all)
-- Pluses and minuses of open-sourcing AGI software (e.g. AGI
safety issues as well as logistical development issues)

-- Ben Goertzel


--- In dcfuture@yahoogroups.com, "Benjamin Goertzel" <ben@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all ...
>
> OK, that's enough feedback to make a quick decision...
>
> Let's try the next DC Future Salon as follows
>
> TIME: Wed. Sept 5, 7PM
> TOPIC: Discusson, theme To Be Announced
> PLACE:*
> Novamente LLC (co-located with Electric Sheep Company & Common Cause)
> 1133* 19th Street, NW. 9th floor,. Washington, DC 20036 202
>
> A note on accessibility: A downside of this location is that, in the
> evening,
> you need either a keycard or a friend who has one (or a sledgehammer
> I suppose) to get through the door.  I will stand down by the door from
> 7-7:15 PM, but if someone comes substantially later than me, they should
> call my cell, 240-505-6518, so someone can come down and let them in.
>
> Anyone who feels so inspired may bring snacks, but nothing extremely
> messy as it's an office environment.
>
>
> -- Ben
>

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