Senin, 24 November 2014

Your robot body is beautiful

Amsterdam: I studied at the University of the Singularity

The DeLaMar Theatre is not in the red light district of Amsterdam, but its glass facade bathed by red spots immediately think of the cabins lining some streets in the Venice of the North. This is what kitsch, luxurious decor chosen by the University of the Singularity to land on the Old Continent this fall.

Nothing is too strange probably this unclassifiable institution Silicon Valley, created by e Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis . The first computer from MIT and now director of engineering at Google, has popularized the concept of Singularity, which predicts a radical transformation of humanity by artificial intelligences in the decades to come. The second is a serial entrepreneur, originally from the XPrize Foundation, which recognizes inventions that could change the face of the world of space travel to low cost educational tablets.

"A gigantic artificial neocortex"

This European summit, in the image of its organizers, an explosive cocktail of business and high technology. All the ingredients for a major international business conference together with hundreds of participants, tie and accreditation neck, smiling hostesses, Breakfast richly furnished, bosses on the phone, inspirations videos, slides art, logos ubiquitous in the organization (a shield imitating Superman S) and his partner (Deloitte consulting giant) ...
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In the amphitheater, the teachers of this "university" non-academic dazzle view to a public who paid the tidy sum of 2000 euros to listen. Neil Jacobstein, a specialist in artificial intelligence, after drawing up an inventory of the latest research in the field, said: "It would not be unreasonable to create a gigantic artificial neocortex." For what purpose? To master the considerable body of scientific information produced now, no human brain is no longer able to aggregate.

The next speaker seems to be still quite capable. Brad Templeton, who participated ed to design the Google Car , proudly wears a white beard and belly of the scientist. It delivers a hundred words a minute his lesson, lecture, on autonomous vehicles. An innovation that could drastically reduce the 1.2 million annual deaths from road accidents in the world.

"Your robot body is beautiful" (Robin Williams)

Rob Nail takes his turn on stage. It is hard to believe that thirty to surfer is actually pulls CEO (CEO) of the Singularity University. Especially as he holds in his arms a robot "Nao" small humanoid with toy-like, designed by Aldebaran, a company franç comfortable . His course on robotics leads him to tell how he had attended last year at a party in Los Angeles, while actually in New York. The secret of this ubiquity? Beam Robot, a screen perched on a moving pedestal that can be remotely from a smartphone. The occasion of a meeting with the actor, who died this summer, Robin Williams, complimenting him for "his superb robot body." Franks laughter and nostalgia.

Just around Raymond McCauley, who holds the chair of biotechnology, which announces a new service. It begins with a Dutch scientific article, published in November 2014, on the impact of oral microbiome relationships, ie bacterial flora, an experience that has imposed its guinea pig kissing for hours. Conclusion? The microbiomes of participants entered in symbiosis, which could have a decisive effect on their health and mood.

Implanting an RFID chip at the lesson of Raymond McCauley, head of the Biotechnology Chair at the University of the Singularity.  © Jeremy Andrew, for "The Point"
After this subtle starter, he invited on stage a Swedish and a Dutch biohacker piercer. The second team is a syringe, the first explains how he implements for years RFID chips, such as those found on our transport cards, while Raymond McCauley sits down and has his hand the two men which inject it a piece of metal of one centimeter under the skin between the thumb and forefinger. Shouts and applause. "The mark of the beast," he quips by wearing his still bleeding wound.
A new world "exciting but dangerous"

It did no less to electrify the room just before the long sermon Peter Diamandis, which closes this first day hands in prayer, multiplying the anaphora, like a televangelist. His message: "Aim for the moon." Proof of his career, made bluffs leading miraculous success, as the launch of the XPrize Foundation in 1996 in the absence of any funding.

He is currently developing, with several large fortunes r é united in Planetary Resources , the craziest of projects: capturing with drones near earth asteroids to exploit its resources. And embed all images of rockets and vibrant voice of John Fitzgerald Kennedy launching the Apollo program, "We have to do it, not because we can, but because it is hard."

Hard? Yes, because the lectures of the University of the Singularity have a Space Mountain side. After you have pushed the head in the stars, they immerse you in fear of a new world "exciting but dangerous." The second day we lend itself well to dream with designer Daan Roosegaarde, its smart highways and cycle paths of transcendent beauty. Then alarmed with the strategy consultant John Hagel economic devastation could cause these new technologies, reducing dust and large jobs.

Ethical Issues

Far from succumbing to a blissful enthusiasm, the "students" at each end of the course, trying to trap the "teachers" in raising ethical questions. Why not dedicate to this conference or even a chair in the SU? As explained by its global ambassador, Salim Ismail, "we discuss all the time, informally. It is very good that our conferences do people react. But that is not our role to comment on the issue This is the society and the State. "

Class, at least, seems fully satisfied with this balance. "It was refreshing, two very intense days," Judge exit Yann Glever, Director of Innovation at Deloitte France. "This will be updated on the latest technologies, interact with people from around the world, from the CEO to the start-up designer, rather than wasting time on the Internet. And even if they are sometimes too, they are aware of the ethical issues. Personally, I'm not going to introduce me as an RFID chip in the body. " We hear about it in five years?

A "turn of the Five-Year"

A "turn of the Five-Year"

It will remain as a "turn of the Five-Year", found Aurélie Filippetti, former Minister of Culture and MP for the riding of Florange, presents Uckange arrival of Francois Hollande. The fact that the neighboring town of Hayange fell into the purse of the FN in March "is a political tragedy," a result of "lack of voluntarism" of the head of state, she added. However, the former leader of CFDT Florange Edward Martin, PS became an MEP, welcomed the "investment € 180 million (realized) in Florange," that helped "save more than 2000 jobs." "We do not fight for nothing," he said.
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To his detractors, François Hollande was to argue that the agreement reached between commitments and ArcelorMittal Ayrault government in 2012 were held. A "solution" has been found for the 629 employees of blast furnaces, of which 257 have left the group voluntarily and the others have been reclassified within the company. But besides steelmakers disillusioned in Florange, other players may play spoilsport on the presidential trail in Lorraine.

Farmers had also planned actions in Moselle and Meuse to "educate" the president to their difficulties. In the afternoon, Francois Hollande will visit Commercy (Meuse) to inaugurate this time Safran-Albany plant, where will be built the blades and casings for the new generation of aircraft engines that will equip including the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 Max. The site, which opened in the spring and already employs 90 people, should generate 400 direct jobs by 2018.

Florange: Holland is pleased to have met its commitments

Florange: Holland is pleased to have met its commitments

Florange visiting for the third time in three years, Francois Hollande said on Monday to comply with its commitments to the steel basin Florange, despite the closure of blast furnaces in 2013. After the inauguration of a center research and development in the neighboring municipality of Uckange, which included among its commitments, the head of state won Florange avoiding thirty CGT protesters and dozens of onlookers who were waiting for main gate of the great offices of ArcelorMittal. "Lack of respect," moaned one of the unionists.
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Previously, François Hollande recalled its promises with regard to this symbolic site of the industrial situation in France. "My belief is that Lorraine is an industrial land of opportunity," he said. These commitments, said the Head of State, the refusal of any socially and reclassification of 630 people involved. "Today, I see that there are more than 2 100 employees on the site of Florange," he has said. Hollande also welcomed the investments required of ArcelorMittal, "146 million euros, of which 86 were already fully engaged" for a total expected 240 million.

"Ensuring the commitments that have been made"

Third period, creating in Uckange this public platform for research and industrial development in the presence of business leaders involved in the operation (Safran, Ascométal, Eramet and Derichebourg). Called Métafensch, this site is scheduled to open by the end of 2015. It will be hosted in a brownfield closed and rehabilitated. At Florange, Francois Hollande honor a promise made to ArcelorMittal workers after the closure of the blast furnace to come back every year "to ensure the commitments that were made." There must meet with management, staff representatives and former employees of blast furnaces reclassified within the ArcelorMittal group. CGT and FO, however, declined the invitation.

The first visit of Francois Hollande in Florange during the 2012 presidential campaign had raised many hopes among steelworkers. Perched on a van of the Inter, the candidate promised to pass a law forcing the "big companies" willing to part with a production unit to "give in to a buyer" to prevent its dismantling. For many of ArcelorMittal workers, however, the blast furnaces closed Florange signed the "betrayal" of the head of state.

CGT denounced a "social genocide"

Holland arrived in Florange "through the back door"

Francois Hollande arrived Monday avoid protesters CGT and onlookers who were waiting at the main gate of the great offices of ArcelorMittal in Florange (Moselle) through another entrance. During the previous visit of President Florange in September 2013, the presidential convoy entered the site through the main entrance, booed by protesters.

On Monday, a few hundred people, including thirty union CGT, waiting for the president. "Going through the back door, it's a lack of respect. Do not deal with a hundred employees and thirty unionists, that sums up the spirit," said Lionel Burriello, CGT Florange . The protesters carried flags few CGT so that signs proclaiming "The decomposition of the Socialist Party promises, it is the breeding ground of the FN" and "Sarkozy yesterday, today Holland bow down to the bosses."

CGT denounced a "social genocide"
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For the third time in three years, Francois Hollande visited this center of the steel industry marked by the extinction of its blast furnaces in April 2013, but the head of state promised to ensure the " industrial future. " Lionel Burriello the blast furnace closure "has led to a social genocide in the valley" of the Fensch. "And beyond that, these dramatic political, the municipality of Hayange where are located the blast furnaces turned National Front. As that children of immigrants, it is distressing to get there." According to him, "Hollande and his government are jointly responsible for the rise of the FN, at least in (their) valley."

For the CGT, "it's been three years since this case is only managed the communication plan They try to find at any price an exit door. A research center, 30 CDI ... It is no longer only a betrayal but a lack of vis-à-vis the working class compliance, employees Florange. " Only the CGT had called for demonstrations against the arrival of Francois Hollande. FO had called on its members to "indifference." Other ArcelorMittal unions had not given specific instructions. The president was to meet with management, staff representatives and former employees of blast furnaces reclassified within the ArcelorMittal group.

Holland Trierweiler: the "dishonor of France" for Nadine Morano

Holland Trierweiler: the "dishonor of France" for Nadine Morano

The former UMP minister Nadine Morano said Monday that Francois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler had brought "dishonor of France", while the former girlfriend of the head of state is promoting his book abroad and not without criticizing political action of the head of state. "This is a couple that, somewhere, we will have brought dishonor all of France," ruled Nadine Morano on RMC and BFM TV.

"We export a little boorishness" François Hollande, she felt, before continuing on Valerie Trierweiler: "If she had a bit of a sense of respect for his country, beyond the man with that it had agreed to be at the Elysee, she would not behave in this way, go make money on his personal history and one that is going to criticize anyway, like it or you do the love not the head of state. "
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"In situations of personal revenge"

"At the same time, this is a woman who was humiliated on the surface of the planet, it is, what it can say say, in situations of personal revenge, which negatively promoting both Francis Holland but also from France ridicules it wherever it goes, "added the MEP.

The Head of State "obviously" right to respect for his private life, but "at the same time, it is not obliged to hide." "It seems that his privacy is as mediocre as public life he presents," said the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.

Bruno Le Maire branded "appalling spectacle of the Right"

Bruno Le Maire branded "appalling spectacle of the Right"

Bruno Le Maire, presidential candidate of the UMP, on Monday denounced the "appalling spectacle of the right" after the whistles sent to Alain Juppé who have "a little surprised" because the "big rally", that is the idea of Nicolas Sarkozy. During a Saturday meeting on his land Bordeaux, in the presence of Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppe was whistled when he referred to a gathering of right and center and holding an open primary in 2016. These whistles "give an appalling spectacle of the right. We're falling back into the old death trap of the line is war chiefs, with the return of clan divisions, fighting people, then we should have a battle of ideas, "said Bruno Le Maire on France Inter.
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"I call on activists to put an immediate end to this war chiefs. They can do this on 29 November by voting for a candidate who is not a candidate in the primary, which will transmit the order in party and hold the primaries for that competition can be orderly and respectful manner. That's UMP president I want to be ", developed the deputy of the Eure.

The large gathering, "an idea of ??Nicolas Sarkozy"

"Where I am a little surprised whistles, this is after all the idea of ??large gathering without dividing lines left nor right where the UMP absorb IDU and would reconstitute itself into a kind of big band a bit nebulous This is the idea of ??Nicolas Sarkozy, "observed his former minister.

Bruno Le Maire has denounced some proposals made by the former head of state. "How to propose that the skill is removed to Europe and the other side absorbing the center," while the UDI "favors a federal Europe?" has he asked. Moreover, "what a joke" to pretend to want out of the Schengen area, has he said.

A really new and really sincere program

Consigny: Juppe, a popular figure naff France

This is not Alain Juppe is connected, it is Inrocks and GQ are tacky. France has already become the Montmartre of the world. We are an aging country that appeals to tourists in clichés. We have more to offer Amélie Poulain, champagne and Versailles. In the past, this was only a consequence: the mansions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is converted into museums, for example, were there only because there were wealthy aristocrats to have them built. When Haussmann in the nineteenth, reviewed Paris from floor to ceiling, it was not to provide the decor pasteboard that appeals to Americans, the Saudis and the Chinese: it was to house the citizens to whom savings flourishing gave fortune. We must accept the reality of looking as if we want to change it: France is naff. Alain Juppe is it really the best person to give up the we are we missing?
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In the coming days will be played election to the presidency of the largest opposition party, which is the first tout court advantage in terms of membership. All Mr. Juppé had to say on the subject is that it was necessary that the UMP continues to encompass both the right and the center. This is not an issue for a large contemporary political force! The center in France, it is firstly a Bayrou to whom God has predicted one day a head of state destiny and also a band apparatchiks that trigger storms in their glass of water without find that their ridiculous skirmishes are greeted by a general indifference. Is the question really for the future of the largest party in France, or not to ally with these people?

A really new and really sincere program

The responsibility of public actors today whether Alain Juppé, Nicolas Sarkozy or Bruno Le Maire, is to invent political line on which France can trace this decline slope on which it seems to slide inexorably to blend into the mists of history. The responsibility of the parties is to unite a majority of French around a really new and really sincere program that will rebuild our country a place where we think, where we invented and where we work . There was a time not so long ago when the sharpest minds, technical innovations and the most interesting productions were in France and Europe: an answer to the question of how to find this is the sole responsibility of the actors public today and we we maintain in history instead of disappear there.

Egypt: President Sissi began his first tour of Europe

Egypt: President Sissi began his first tour of Europe

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi flew on Monday to Italy, kicking off his first tour in the European Union that will take him to France, in an attempt to attract foreign investors despite persistent political unrest.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former head of the army that ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, must meet Pope Francis during the first visit of an Egyptian leader to the Vatican in eight years. He will meet with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome.
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Egyptian President will travel Tuesday in Paris, where he will meet his French counterpart Francois Hollande and several senior officials, including Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Wednesday. The anti-jihadist struggle, particularly against armed Islamic groups that the law in neighboring Libya will be on the agenda.

A president seeking foreign investors

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi should also seek to encourage the return of foreign investors in Egypt, whose economy has been shaken by more than three years of political instability. He was triumphantly elected in May, after eliminating any Islamist and secular opposition, strong support of the media and public opinion, which in its vast majority, is grateful to have ended the "chaos" in the country since the 2011 revolt that drove Hosni Mubarak from power.

Since the dismissal and arrest of Mohamed Morsi, the authorities launched a bloody crackdown against his supporters, leaving at least 1,400 dead, mostly protesters. More than 15 000 people were also imprisoned, including almost all the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization which resulted Mohamed Morsi and is now classified as a "terrorist group". Pro-Morsi Hundreds were also sentenced to death in mass trials that triggered an outcry on the international stage.

The fear of "escalation of both sides"

The fear of "escalation of both sides"

The two parties are negotiating under an interim agreement reached in Geneva in November 2013, which provides for the freezing of some of the nuclear activities of Iran against a partial lifting of international sanctions. The extension "would be the lesser evil," according to an Iranian source, explaining that the worst would be "a climate of confrontation with an escalation of both sides. For example, an answer to new sanctions by the development of the program nuclear. " What are the contours of the extension? Kelsey Davenport believes that a delay of several months "would have no chance" of success. This expert on nuclear non-proliferation in the Arms Control Association considers realistic contrast "a short extension to refine the details of an agreement," if sufficient progress by Monday evening.
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Legally, it could be either an outright renewal of the Geneva Agreement, either a single time to refine the details of a political settlement. This second option, however, imply that firm commitments, and probably encrypted, are taken from both sides on Monday. A comprehensive agreement would restore the breath to the Iranian economy, thanks to the lifting of Western oil embargo. It would offer the prospect of normalization between Iran and the West, or even cooperation on Iraq and Syria.

But the extension of the talks may make the game of those who, in the West and Iran, opposed a crisis. American elected officials are in favor of new sanctions against Tehran. And in January, opponents Republicans Barack Obama will control Congress, impeding the flexibility of the Democratic president. In Iran, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, and the head of the Islamic Basij militia, General Mohammad Reza Nagdi, did not lose Monday to criticize the negotiations and the 5 + 1. "To hell if they do not accept. To hell if they impose sanctions," said the latter, quoted by ISNA news agency.

Iran: failure of negotiations in Vienna

Iran: failure of negotiations in Vienna

Iran and the major powers failed to reach an agreement on the nuclear issue and will resume their dialogue in December. The historic agreement hoped would have ended twelve years of international tensions. The failure of negotiations in Vienna leaves the parties with the heavy and dangerous task of finding a formula allowing them to extend the discussion.
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Iranian Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his counterparts from 5 + 1, the American John Kerry, Chinese Wang Yi, the French Laurent Fabius, Briton Philip Hammond, the Russian Sergei Lavrov and German Frank-Walter Steinmeier were locked in a room of Coburg, a Viennese palace for a few days became the epicenter of world diplomacy, at a time when a Western source has finally admitted that a political settlement was reached. The great powers required Iran to reduce its nuclear capabilities, to exclude all military opportunity. Tehran, which maintains that its nuclear program is strictly peaceful, claims its right to full civil nuclear energy and calls for the lifting of economic sanctions asphyxiate. Seven days of uninterrupted talks have failed to reconcile the positions of uranium enrichment by Iran and Western sanctions against Tehran, the two key points of a political settlement.

The deadline to negotiate runs until midnight. But each party had during the weekend indicated that an extension of the discussions could be inevitable. "Due to technical difficulties, it is possible that we need more time," the last recognized Wang Yi on his arrival in the Austrian capital on Monday morning. John Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had Monday morning their seventh head to head since Thursday, have already addressed all the different scenarios on how best to continue the negotiations. The duration of an extension is unknown, although an Iranian source spoke of "six months or a year." Such an option would however be very difficult politically to the moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Barack Obama, both struggling with what the analyst Kelsey Davenport called "hard that both Washington and Tehran, want to sabotage the Agreement ".