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Posted on 06/16/2013 2:00:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Even if not totally successful as intended, the artificial brains may just be the edge required in the Zombie Apocalypse.
I wouldn’t want immortality. I wouldn’t want to be super rich, either.
Itskov modeled as an avatar at Russia 2045's 2012 conference
Forbidden planet, The Krell were about to gain this dream until the ugly ID raised its head!
Great for deep space travel but I wonder if it might be more humane if you could do it without personality. If we could transfer the intelligence and thinking processes it would be better.
There’s plenty of time for ponderin because I think 2045 is a wildly optimistic timeline. I think 200 years from now is a maybe and even that would be optimistic.
I’ve actually done a fair amount of thinking about this myself as a possible sci fi project. Imagine if you could transfer your consciousness to a couple of dozen near eternal robots for a mission to a distant planet. Meanwhile you could be in hyper sleep for however many thousands of years it took to get there.
When you awoke, I wonder how different you would be from the robot copies of yourself. Especially if they’ve had thousands of years of new experiences and memories. Also each individual robot would also have its own distinct and individual experiences and memories.
Another possibility is human robots taking frozen embryos to a distant planet and raising and teaching the first few generations.
Just the sort of thing I think about in the dark of night.
Immortality would solve one problem - when the birth rate drops to near zero, it would insure that consumers would still be there to keep the economy going in human terms.
But one wonders: When does “immortality” proceed to “immorality”? We are moral because we are NOT immortal.
My guess is, the Creator of the universe is lol’ing about this...
Sounds like a James Bond movie.
“...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement..”
Hebrews 9:27
“Another possibility is human robots taking frozen embryos to a distant planet and raising and teaching the first few generations.”
This is an excellent idea for a story. It seems like it could be a sequel of sorts to Blade Runner.
“— By 2045, technology nirvana in the form of artificial brains controlling insubstantial, hologram bodies.”
— By 2084, they will become to be known as the Robotrons. They will work to wipe out humanity ... including Mikey.
2045 to “artificial brains?” The Russian is a Luddite. I peg the date for that threshold much sooner than that.
The bots would need to be hardwired with a constitutional “prime directive” and would need solid control of things till a society was functional and the humans could run the show. After that the bots could act as judges with a solid constitutional base.
>> I peg the date for that threshold much sooner than that.
You have a point, especially considering how fast the threshold for what is considered human intelligence is falling...
I wonder what will be on the teevee in 2045. I predict programs will consist of a kaleidoscopic light show with some erotic babbling in the background — in between “soma” commercials.
I think a more realistic goal is to shoot for a human brain “mirror”. That is, record everything a person observes and says, their decisions, their timing, their conversations, writings, patterns, routines and habits, speech, interactions, etc., over the course of a decade.
Then try to convert it into an elaborate algorithm, compressed, and continually calculating on their next action and behavior, narrowing things down until it can generally predict what they are going to do.
Then, because human memory is awful, augment with actual sources. So, for example, the person reads a book and just remembers snippets, highlights, or what they read. The computer has the whole book as a reference, yet can filter it through their algorithm.
Eventually, what you get won’t be that person, but a facsimile that could fill in for them much of the time, in the vast majority of situations that don’t require much creativity.
Can you imagine all the updates, patches and blue screens of death in your artificial brain?
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