Here was my intro to the first cyborg I saw on TV in the 1970s. The Six Million Dollar man. Loved this show! Steve Austin was the bionic man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGO57y4td-c
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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Resistance is futile...
No they won’t. God will remake the world. Read the Bible.
““Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” he says in the book”
If cyborgs are programmed by leftists, they won’t know which bathroom to use.
L.Ron Hoover’s first church of appliantology was real???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlHnpoVYbHE
Here was my intro to the first cyborg I saw on TV in the 1970s. The Six Million Dollar man. Loved this show! Steve Austin was the bionic man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGO57y4td-c
The only thing jarring about that book would be the thud it made when it hit the bottom of the dumpster. What silliness.
It would be interesting to see how one of these ‘self learning’ robots dealt with the banana scenario.
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