Posted on 08/26/2019 11:54:44 AM PDT by ransomnote
For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet's only intelligent, self-aware species. But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own lifetimes. Not long after that, Homo sapiens could vanish from Earth entirely.
That’s the jarring message of a new book by James Lovelock, the famed British environmentalist and futurist. “Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” he says in the book, "Novacene." “The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.”
Lovelock describes cyborgs as the self-sufficient, self-aware descendants of today’s robots and artificial intelligence systems. He calls the looming era of their dominance the Novacene — literally, the “new new” age.
These days, there’s no shortage of modern-day Luddites warning that technology will soon overwhelm us. But Lovelock’s bold predictions stand apart. Unlike technoskeptics, including University of Louisville computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy, Lovelock thinks it unlikely that our machines will turn against us, Terminator-style. And unlike utopians like futurist Ray Kurzweil, he doesn’t envision humans and machines merging blissfully into a union that some call the singularity.
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These people that make these predictions really overestimate our capabilities and where we are with technology. Can it happen ... certainly ... but I don’t think we are anywhere close to cyborgs killing us off and taking over the planet ... nowhere near that.
The guy is trying to sell his book.
I remember 30 years ago when we were all going to lose our jobs to computers.
Anyone remember how that worked out? Oh wait, it didn’t happen...
Next CEO of Overstock.
I write future stories. I call them synths.
Reduce traffic jams in cities
Reduce expenses of PD’s by 45%
Reduce medical costs by 66%
Reduce cost for teachers 65%
Reduce crimes 66%
In the late 23rd century when the sy the take over the earth they will reduce the human population to 5 billion.
Synths will mine the moon and Mars and bring metals of the future to Earth making space planes viable, reducing weight of everything, provide more pliable metals.
Genius doesn’t know what a cyborg is.
If they don’t make the 6 million dollar man sounds, don’t bother building them.
Millennials will ensure that absolutely none of this occurs.
Since when is an interview with a hack SciFi writer considered “news”?
So...
Cyborgs, manufactured and programmed by HUMANS are gonna take over and make the world a better place than it was when HUMANS were top dog?
How is it that these idiots even get heard with this nonsense?
Posted in chat. :)
the world will be logical, more efficient. You can decide if that is a good thing.
Android sex dolls. I see more of a “ Bananas” style future than “ Terminator”. I mean, killer robots with laser beams are cool and all, but people not having sex with each other will come first. Only those from 3rd world countries will survive. we are devo. ( de-evolving)
Yep! We can now understand where the DNC, on Nov 3, 2016, got the data & analyses that showed Donald Trump with a 4% chance to win the election: Lovestock, Yampolskiy, and Kurzweil...
“If they don’t make the 6 million dollar man sounds, don’t bother building them.”
You mean this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OyIBuF73PQ
I think it will be more like “Demolition Man”
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