{"id":44173,"date":"2011-09-22T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13963"},"modified":"2011-09-22T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:20:09","slug":"singularity-summit-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/singularity-summit-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity Summit 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That time of the year for a certain type of nerd, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singularitysummit.com\/\">Singularity Summit<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/2011\/09\/21\/singularity-summit-in-nyc-to-explore-historic-watson-victory\/\">a preview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This Singularity Summit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.singularitysummit.com\/program\">line-up<\/a>\u00a0this year features a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.singularitysummit.com\/program\">mix of 25 speakers<\/a>\u00a0from numerous fields, with a central focus on robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular the victory of the IBM computer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Watson_(computer)\">Watson<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Jeopardy!<\/em>\u00a0this February. Inventor and award-winning author Ray Kurzweil will give the opening keynote on \u201cFrom Eliza to Watson to Passing the Turing Test\u201d. Registration for the Summit, which runs on October 15-16 at the 92Y in New York, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.singularitysummit.com\/registration\/\">open to the public now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the Summit this year is the Watson victory and future Watson applications, such as in medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n1U8ckr95IA\">Dan Cerutti<\/a>, IBM\u2019s VP of Commercialization for Watson, will give a talk on medical applications for Watson, and the closing keynote will be by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ken-jennings.com\/\">Ken Jennings<\/a>, who won 74 consecutive<em>Jeopardy!<\/em>\u00a0matches 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\u2019 talk will be \u201cThe Human Brain in Jeopardy: Computers That \u201cThink\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be able to make it because I&#8217;m very busy right now, but that&#8217;s too bad. Ken Jennings is a great headliner, but do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singularitysummit.com\/program\">look at all the speakers<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Tyler Cowen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/soniaarrison.com\/\">Sonia Arrison<\/a> will be there. I had lunch with some of the practitioners of <a href=\"http:\/\/economics.gmu.edu\/\">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&#8217;t had time to review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465019668\/geneexpressio-20\">100 Plus<\/a> (alas, the neglect of the <a href=\"http:\/\/razibkhanbooks.com\/\">Razib Khan on Books<\/a> website), but it&#8217;s an excellent take on the possible implications of greater longevity (no, I don&#8217;t think longevity research is crazy as such, though I&#8217;m probably not as optimistic as many in the community).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/BIDysL7PVEo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That time of the year for a certain type of nerd, the Singularity Summit. Here&#8217;s a a preview: This Singularity Summit\u00a0line-up\u00a0this year features a\u00a0mix of 25 speakers\u00a0from numerous fields, with a central focus on robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular the victory of the IBM computer\u00a0Watson\u00a0in\u00a0Jeopardy!\u00a0this February. 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