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AUSTIN, TEXASYou've seen Her. You've heard about the upcoming Ex Machina movie. Now, meet Martine Rothblatt, a transgender, transhumanist who wants to help you live forever by creating your own personal mind clone. If that sounds like science fiction, it is a fiction the board of her company, United Therapeutics, is sold onlast year she was the highest paid female CEO in the nation, earning $38 million.
Siri is just the beginning, she told the crowd at this year's SXSW conference here in Austin.
"There will be continued advances in software that we see throughout our lives. Eventually, these advances in software will rise to the level of consciousness," Rothblatt said, predicting that at that point, there will be no reason why the human consciousness can't live on indefinitely.
The core idea of transhumanism is that technology will someday free us of our mortal coil. The first step is creating what she calls a mind file. A mind file is a digital record that encapsulates your thoughts, mannerisms, relationships, and morebasically, it's a digital record of your entire self. And if you have a Facebook profile, according to Rothblatt, your mind file is well underway.
"We are living in a world where all of your life is captured," she said. "There is work going on at Amazon, Google, and Apple that is Mindware. It is software designed to process and recreate all of these inputs to create a consciousness."
Once the Mindware has its inputs, it just needs a robot to host it, Rothblatt said. Trust her, she's already done it.
Rothblatt hired a team of roboticists to create a "mind clone" of her wife, Bina Aspen. The mind clone, named Bina48, is a head and torso, albeit one that looks eerily like the real Bina Aspen. Bina48 is remarkably sophisticated for a home-built mind clone: she carries on a conversation, she tweets, and she expresses novel ideas. Rothblatt says soon everyone will be able to have a mind clone like Bina48.
"If I can do this as one person with a robotics team, what happens when we have 100 million makers in the world?" Rothblatt challenged the crowd. "What happens when open-source mindware gets put up on the Web for anyone to download?"
Extending human life isn't just a software problem for Rothblatt; she is also at the forefront of organ transplant technology. One of her current projects involves breeding genetically modified pigs to reduce the rates of organ transplant rejection.
"When we started doing this, the longest a genetically-modified pig organ could survive was two hours, and now we are up to over eight days. It's mind-blowing," she said.
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AUSTIN, Texas As a plane with a Grumpy Cat flag flew overhead, courtesy of Friskies, the Technorati flooded into panel discussions and happy hour spots at the annual tech festival South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.
Top tech influencers pondered immortality and mind cloning. FireChat, an app that lets smartphone users connect via mobile chat even without a cellular connection, was another hot topic. Here's a look at the most notable trending topics Sunday at the tech jamboree.
OFF-THE-GRID MOBILE CHAT
No cell service? No problem.
An app called FireChat uses phone signals such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to connect to other users' phones and enable chats without any network connection. The app, created by a San Francisco startup called Open Garden, debuted in 2012 and was a hit last August at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock, Nevada, where cell phone service is scarce.
It links people via what it calls a "peer-to-peer mesh network," connecting through phone signals rather than a network. The range is about 90 feet but the connection can jump from phone to phone if there's a crowd. It's software-only, says co-founder and CEO Micha Benoliel. Currently the app supports public group chats and hashtags; private messaging is coming.
The app, which is a finalist for South by Southwest's innovation awards, has 5 million users and has been used by tens of thousands of people in India and the Philippines at political protests. As a new startup, Benoliel says his first time at South by Southwest has been positive. "The best surprise has been going to parties and having people asking how they can use FireChat for their event," he says.
TRANSGENDER AND BEYOND IN TECH
United Therapeutics CEO Martine Rothblatt, who considers herself a "transhumanist," discussed advances in "mind cloning" in a keynote Sunday. She said she believes people will one day be able to clone their cognitive functions, and detailed her biotech company's advances in cloning organs and making the process of transferring organs from donor to recipient more efficient.
Rothblatt urged everyone to question authority and noted that in other eras she might not have survived as a transgender person.
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Mind cloning, off-the-grid chats & ambient mobile alerts lead chatter at South by Southwest
By MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As a plane with a Grumpy Cat flag flew overhead, courtesy of Friskies, the Technorati flooded into panel discussions and happy hour spots at the annual tech festival South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.
Top tech influencers pondered immortality and mind cloning. FireChat, an app that lets smartphone users connect via mobile chat even without a cellular connection, was another hot topic. Here's a look at the most notable trending topics Sunday at the tech jamboree.
OFF-THE-GRID MOBILE CHAT
No cell service? No problem.
An app called FireChat uses phone signals such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to connect to other users' phones and enable chats without any network connection. The app, created by a San Francisco startup called Open Garden, debuted in 2012 and was a hit last August at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock, Nevada, where cell phone service is scarce.
It links people via what it calls a "peer-to-peer mesh network," connecting through phone signals rather than a network. The range is about 90 feet but the connection can jump from phone to phone if there's a crowd. It's software-only, says co-founder and CEO Micha Benoliel. Currently the app supports public group chats and hashtags; private messaging is coming.
The app, which is a finalist for South by Southwest's innovation awards, has 5 million users and has been used by tens of thousands of people in India and the Philippines at political protests. As a new startup, Benoliel says his first time at South by Southwest has been positive. "The best surprise has been going to parties and having people asking how they can use FireChat for their event," he says.
TRANSGENDER AND BEYOND IN TECH
United Therapeutics CEO Martine Rothblatt, who considers herself a "transhumanist," discussed advances in "mind cloning" in a keynote Sunday. She said she believes people will one day be able to clone their cognitive functions, and detailed her biotech company's advances in cloning organs and making the process of transferring organs from donor to recipient more efficient.
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The National Security Agency needs to establish a broader dialogue across the nation in order to better strike a balance between an individuals rights to privacy and the need to intelligently secure our nation, said Admiral Michael Rogers, NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command commander.
Its not me as director of the NSA that ought to be making that decision [to find a balance]. We as a nation need to decide what are we comfortable with, whats the right balance, he said.
Admiral Rogers, who has been in command since April 2014, spoke to an audience of students, faculty, and community members in a conversation titled Challenges and Opportunities in an Interconnected World in Alexander Hall at Princeton University on Tuesday.
He opened the conversation with an introduction to the missions of the NSA and Cyber Command, and his expectations for the organizations core priorities: obeying the rule of law, being accountable to the citizens they defend, acknowledging mistakes, and not cutting corners.
In the end, NSA is a group of highly motivated men and women who are trying to do the right thing the right way, but they are men and women. They will sometimes make mistakes, Admiral Rogers said. So we say, hey, if we make a mistake, we stand up, we tell the court we made a mistake, we tell Congress we made a mistake, we tell the attorney general that we made a mistake.
During the subsequent question and answer session, Admiral Rogers emphasized the need for the NSA to create more public confidence in its mission.
If were honest with each other, what is our confidence in Congress and the world were living in right now? Admiral Rogers asked. Not as high as we all wish it were.
He noted that after Senate investigation into intelligence community abuses of the rights of citizens, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which created a new legal framework of oversight for the NSA yet national confidence in the NSA remains low.
The very mechanisms, almost 40 years ago, that we put in place to try to generate confidence are now questioned by our citizens. Its not a criticism, its just a fact, he said. What are the mechanisms we can create that will engender greater confidence?
In response to a question about cyberspace deterrence, Admiral Rogers advocated for a proportional and specific response. He also noted that much of the current research about deterrence is done in the private academic sector and called on the Princeton community to help address these difficult questions for the nation.
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University of Oklahoma President David Boren has expelled two members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on his campus for leading a horrifying racist chant. Does his decision violate their First Amendment rights? And if it does, whats wrong with this picture, in which a public university wouldnt be able to sanction students who not only bar blacks from their organization, but also refer to lynching in the process?
A public university is bound by the First Amendment because its an organ of the state. Admittedly, there is something weird about this fact, because a public campus isnt inherently different from a private one with respect to educational function and goals. Some strange free-speech anomalies can arise from treating a university like the government. For example, professors sanction speech based on its content all the time, by grading wrong answers lower than right ones. But usually free speech bars such content discrimination.
Discipline is another anomaly. A university is meant to be a community of learning, and making such a community work requires rules of decorum that are more restrictive than those that should apply in the public square. The First Amendment generally guarantees us the right to yell, scream, insult, offend, condemn and denounce. None of these forms of speech belong in the classroom, and few belong on a well-functioning campus.
In a perfect world, there might be a broad First Amendment exemption for public campuses. But there isnt so Borens decision has to be judged by First Amendment standards.
Applying ordinary free-speech doctrine, the expulsion looks unconstitutional, as professor Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law has pointed out. Racist speech is still protected speech under the First Amendment, no matter how repulsive. The fraternity can be banned for race discrimination, which is prohibited conduct. Speaking in favor of discrimination, however, is generally protected.
But Borens explanation for the expulsion rests on a different theory. He said specifically that the students were being expelled for their leadership role in leading a racist and exclusionary chant, which has created a hostile educational environment for others.
The important words here are hostile educational environment. Under federal anti-discrimination law, as interpreted by the Department of Education, a university has an affirmative duty to guarantee students an educational environment in which they are free of hostility based on race or sex.
You may have heard about this principle in connection with Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex. The law has similarly been interpreted by Education Department to require universities to protect students against a hostile educational environment based on sex discrimination, including sexual harassment.
In the business context, the analogy would be to an employers obligation to protect against a hostile workplace environment.
So Boren was saying that the students are being expelled not for their opinions per se, but because their speech was a form of discriminatory conduct that would create a hostile educational environment for black students. Given that the speech was literally designed to inculcate the value of racial discrimination by making pledges recite their commitment never to admit a black member to the fraternity, this conclusion seems plausible. Removing the chant leaders from campus is intended to fulfill the educational goal of creating a nonhostile educational environment.
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With a 10-7 win Sunday over the host Missouri Comets in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Blast advanced to the Major Arena Soccer League championship series.
The Blast improved to 21-2 overall and remained unbeaten in three playoff games. On offense, Vini Dantas had three goals and Tony Donatelli added two. Defensively, Blast captain Pat Healey (Calvert Hall, Towson University) kept MASL Most Valuable Player candidate Leo Gibson in check, while goalkeeper William Vanzela finished with 24 saves in the win.
The Blast will face the Monterrey Flash, which beat the Las Vegas Legends in the Western Conference finals Sunday. More information regarding series dates and times will be announced today.
Sunday's game got off to a slow start, with only Missouri's Kiel Williams scoring in the opening period.
The second quarter, though, turned into a shootout. The Blast tied the game with a goal from Mike Deasel, and Lucas Roque, the team's leading scorer, found the net to give the Blast the 2-1 lead. After a Comets penalty, Lucio Gonzaga found Tony Donatelli for the team's third straight goal.
Missouri answered, with Alain Matingou's shot cutting the Blast's lead to one. The Blast fired back when Onua Obasi gained possession at the top of the arc and rocketed a shot past Comets goalkeeper Danny Waltman, his 10th goal of the season. Missouri defender John Sosa scored with one second left in the half to cut the team's deficit to 4-3.
The Blast opened the second half by converting on its second power-play opportunity, as Dantas recorded his 17th goal of the season to extend the Blast lead's to two. The Comets soon tied the game with back-to-back goals by Bryan Perez and Josh Gardner. Dantas' second goal of the game returned the lead to the Blast, and with seconds remaining in the quarter, Healey, who leads the team in assists, fed Donatelli for a goal and 7-5 advantage.
In a high-intensity fourth quarter, Dantas completed his hat trick to put the Blast up by three. Goals from Missouri's Gardner and Gibson made it a one-point game with just minutes to go, but Vanzela and the Blast defense stepped up to secure victory. Adriano Dos Santos and Levi Houpeau (UMBC) scored empty-net goals in the final minute to provide the final margin.
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