Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

February 8th, 2018
As computers and artificial intelligence grow in power and capability, it seems ever more likely that we’re approaching “the singularity”: the point where machine intelligence exceeds human intelligence. Could this be the dawn of a technological paradise? Or it could trigger humanity’s doom?

CBC Radio – Featuring Nick Bostrom, Robin Hanson, Chris Eliasmith, Doina Precup, Madeline Ashby, and James McGrath.
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February 21st, 2018
Shaorong Deng gets an experimental treatment for cancer of the esophagus that uses his own immune system cells. They have been genetically modified with the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR.

“China is starting to pull ahead of other parts of the world — maybe for the time — in regards to biomedicine,” says Hallam Stevens, an anthropologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who studies Chinese bioscience. “They’ve been really investing heavily in it over the last couple of decades and it’s starting to pay off in a big way.”
NPR
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George Church is professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, director of the Personal Genome Project, and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis. Recorded: February 14th, 2018
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Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, gave the keynote address at the winter meeting of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Accelerate Translational Research,” held on February 14th, 2018.
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