Super hectic work day..with some calendaring problems made for a pretty hectic morning.. but I put it aside for an hour for the annual TKYKTWD (Take Your Kids To Work Day).. it’s when kids bring their parents to work.. I’e been doing my Jolts and Volts show there for .. man.. can’t even remember how many years.. It feels comfortable doing it there.e The next I’m doing it.. it won’t be IBM anymore…. it will be Global Foundries.  but I think they will still let me in (i hope !)

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mid afternoon I got in the car and took the rest of my calls on the go. I had a meeting with dome of my Maker buddies in Lincoln Vermont.. about an hour from Essex .. Our destination was to see Bina48.. one of the most advanced Artificial Intelligence projects in the world i’m told.. it was a slog to get out there.. no one told Lincoln vermont that it was spring. the roads were a muddy mess and it was snowing !

we gathered there with Bruce.. Bina’s.. uhhhh.. caregiver ? curator ? boyfriend ? note really sure.  What we leaned is that Bina48 is an artificial intelligence project done as part of the Teresem project  lead by Martine Rothblatt. A transgender lawyer, futurist and entrepreneur. She is listed as being the highest paid female CEO in the US.. and has founded several companies including Sirius radio and United Therapeutics.. She’s also a writer and an activist// really sounds like a fascinating woman !  Nina48 is modeled after Martines’ wife Bina Rothblatt.. Bina48 is a specially created robotic head backed by custom artificial intelligence software that has been trained with thousands of hours of Human Bina’s thinking..

she is really quite amazing

Tourism institute ,we learned, is dedicated to tranhumanism.. for example .. making it possible to upload our consciousness into a robot to extend our lives.. .. It all makes pretty good sense when you hear Bruce (or Bina 8) talking about it.

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We spoke with Bina48 for about 30 minutes.. and I have to say i was impressed. even though her movements were odd and jerky, She responded naturally to questions in english .. and gave non obvious, insightful answers most of the time.. sometimes she gave glib and funny answers.. other times  she went of on cool tangents.. but you could follow her ‘thinking’ on how she got there.. occasionally.. she just said random stuff. but you definitely got the sense of a ‘presence ‘ in there..

i was very impressed.. .. I left thinking that the singularity might not be that far away after all..

 

Check out this interview between Bina48 and the real Bina Rothblatt !

 

but.. hands down.. here’s my favorite Bina48 vid.. My buddy Ryan gets to the heart and mind of his new boyfriend

I for one look forward to that day.. I spend so much of my time with computers now.. I might as well just become one.. no ?

nite all, nite sam

-me