Jon Stewart: Rally to Restore Sanity (Video) *Stephen Colbert: March to Keep Fear Alive*

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Jon Stewart announces Rally to Restore Sanity at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010

Jon Stewart: Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert: March to Keep Fear Alive

Glenn Beck had a recent rally, Restoring Honor, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010. Now Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced counter-rallies on Saturday, October 30, 2010 - Rally to Restore Sanity and March to Keep Fear Alive, respectively.

(MSNBC: Can Jon Stewart Tamp Down the Craziness?) MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell and Willie Geist join Hardball's Chris Matthews to discuss Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's dueling rallies on the National Mall in advance of the midterm elections. 

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Stephen Colbert announces March to Keep Fear Alive at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010

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Artificial Intelligence Cometh (Video) *DARPA: Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL)*

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DARPA: Developing cognitive systems that learn to adapt to their user

Artificial Intelligence Cometh: Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL)

DARPA, the USA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is always good for running a chill up your spine or, conversely, for providing hope about a grand future, depending on your disposition. DARPA is a small, flexible military think tank for leading edge technology projects which has been called "“100 geniuses connected by a travel agent.”. Some popular robot videos on the web are DARPA projects.

One DARPA project is called PAL, "Personalized Assistant that Learns", and there is even a video (below). The video summarizes the PAL project and shows examples of the vision of what PAL could be. The mission of PAL is

*Radically improve computer support to Commanders and Staff.

* Enable cognitive systems that 1) learn from experience, 2) learn by instruction, 3) learn to organize information, 4) learn from interaction between people, 5) learn to retrieve information.

"Cognitive systems" is software in this context and DARPA wants this software to possess an optimal learning curve! If a PAL can be developed as portrayed in the video, this is a major step forward in artificial intelligence.

*Video courtesy of DARPA*

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The rate of technological change is accelerating

We Are Witnesses: To the greatest changes in human history, that will transform humanity

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Technological change is increasing at an increasing rate - exponential change. If all these tremendous technological changes have happened in the last  200 years, what can the next 25, 50, 100 years bring?

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