{"id":39721,"date":"2011-09-25T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/singularity-summit-2011-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-09-25T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:48:33","slug":"singularity-summit-2011-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/singularity-summit-2011-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Singularity Summit 2011 | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

That time of the year for a certain type of nerd, the Singularity Summit<\/a>. Here’s a a preview<\/a>:<\/p>

This Singularity Summit line-up<\/a> this year features a mix of 25 speakers<\/a> from numerous fields, with a central focus on robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular the victory of the IBM computer Watson<\/a> in Jeopardy!<\/em> this February. Inventor and award-winning author Ray Kurzweil will give the opening keynote on “From Eliza to Watson to Passing the Turing Test”. Registration for the Summit, which runs on October 15-16 at the 92Y in New York, is open to the public now<\/a>.<\/p>

The theme of the Summit this year is the Watson victory and future Watson applications, such as in medicine. Dan Cerutti<\/a>, IBM’s VP of Commercialization for Watson, will give a talk on medical applications for Watson, and the closing keynote will be by Ken Jennings<\/a>, who won 74 consecutiveJeopardy!<\/em> matches only to lose to Watson in February. Watson won $1,000,000 in the contest and Jennings won $300,000, coming in second place. Jennings’ talk will be “The Human Brain in Jeopardy: Computers That “Think”.<\/p><\/blockquote>

I won’t be able to make it because I’m very busy right now, but that’s too bad. Ken Jennings is a great headliner, but do look at all the speakers<\/a>. Tyler Cowen<\/a> and Sonia Arrison<\/a> will be there. I had lunch with some of the practitioners of Masonomics<\/a> a few years back, but Tyler and Bryan Caplan were both out of town. No doubt the day will come. Just not this day. I haven’t had time to review 100 Plus<\/a> (alas, the neglect of the Razib Khan on Books<\/a> website), but it’s an excellent take on the possible implications of greater longevity (no, I don’t think longevity research is crazy as such, though I’m probably not as optimistic as many in the community).<\/p>

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