Posted on 05/07/2011 11:34:06 AM PDT by decimon
Yesterday afternoon, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak spoke to Michigan State University graduates as he received an honorary doctorate of engineering from MSU for his many accomplishments in the personal computing industry. However, toward the end of his mostly positive commencement speech, he warned graduates that the computers he’s helped create will soon make us irrelevant as a species.
“Every time we invent a computer to do something else, it’s doing our work for us, making ourselves less relevant,” said Wozniak, in his usual upbeat tone. “The cyborgs are winning! The androids are winning!”
Wozniak continued: “Artificial intelligence will in the future become more and more like a real person, like a friend you would want to go and meet. Somebody that can talk to your face; somebody that can understand things [and] knows the kind of jokes you like; [somebody] that knows what sort of things to say depending on how slowly you’re talking then; a real person.”
“One of the things is, you’ve got to have human senses,” continued Wozniak. “How does a computer ever create art, for example, if it can’t sense things that a human understands, like the wind on a beach. Well, our computers have gotten hearing and seeing, they’ve got feeling, touch sensitive; they can sense motion, just like our inner ear. Pretty soon we’re going to have holograms, which are much better than what you call 3D television. We’ve created a new species; no question. We’re creators and, like I said, we’re making ourselves less relevant.”
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LOL!!
Good I need a vacation.
Creation is an act of power with a love endowment.
Wozniak is a fabricator living in a fabrication.
Your tears have wetted the paper bag there, Steve-O.
Break on through to the other side...
That sounds like a rock-solid investment strategy to me.
Are there many of those? Do they bother you? If so, why?
Yes there are quite a bit misguided sheep. They don’t bother me personally, but it’s disturbing that they are so easily manipulated by the purveyors of proprietary items.
I understand in that the same thing disturbs me about Democrats and the exclusiveness of Socialism. However, I am a conservative Republican and an avid Mac fan. Perhaps if I were a techie and could build and work on my own computers I would feel differently but I can't.
The Woz is one of those who built the virtual world in which we all function now. Of course, he dated the foul-mouthed untalented Kathy Griffin, but I cut him some slack on that because she was a lot younger (go, Woz!) and a redhead.
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