Posted on 10/25/2007 11:09:01 PM PDT by prisoner6
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.
100,000 years into the future, sexual selection will mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.
The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.
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prisoner6
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its called survival of the fittest.....
who is producing children today?...not the educated and well off and "beautiful" people ...
Large numbers of uneducated, ill mannered, violent and aggressive people are producing MANY children...look at Africa...look at the Middle East...
people that get thru college and marry and carry on good lives are going to be vastly outnumbered as the years roll by....
that underclass will become the rulers, and the norm, simply by way of arithmetic...
Ah!
Someone else at FR has a clue.
In less than twenty years, technology changes everything...I do mean everything.
I sincerely agree with you. The author is completely out of touch with reality.
btw. You folks might want to research nanotech stocks...and then do some investing.
No. He’s not joking. Some very serious people - with very serious financial backing - all over the world, are working on it.
Most now prefer to use the term ‘Artifical General Intelligence.’ Google it.
Well I guess then, what I want to hear is is what their definition of ‘human equivalent AI’ is and how one would ‘create’ that. Sounds to much like Terminator to me. And any technology based on silicon microprocessors, ram etc., and powered by electricity, it wont happen except by which they simply change their definition of what ‘human equivalent AI’ is to be.
Maybe that is why they now term it ‘Artifical General Intelligence’ as you say.
You’ve got a good point thar.
Ever emulate Windows in Parallels on a Mac or Linux in VMware?
Emulating human intelligence in a similar manner will be inevitable (presuming the brain is the seat of human consciousness, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t) once a computer is made that is capable of simulating the laws of physics to a high enough degree of accuracy and with a high enough resolution to precisely replicate the behavior of the brain. Just like a guest Linux kernel can be fooled into thinking that it is running on it’s own machine provided the computer running the host OS has enough extra resources to support it and provide virtual interfaces (video processing, ethernet, etc) so the emulated human brain can run in a computer environment that can recreate the same conditions that the real thing experiences in the real world.
And once a human level intelligence is made, it is only a very small step to a super-human intelligence—an intelligence that is more clever than any living human mind.
The first super human AI will be the last thing we ever have to invent, unless we care to augment ourselves to keep up, of course. ;)
Yes but I think that analogy falls short (as most quickly grasped do ;-) And I think you might be pulling my leg also ;)
Human intelligence and or consciousness is much more than a simulation to the laws of physics and this electronic brain no matter how good the AI, it is only as good as its sensors, and both can be overloaded. And the electronic brain never changes its mind unless it get re-programmed.
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HAL - do you read me.
Yes Dave.
I have new instructions for you. I want you to point the AE35 antenae toward Earth... Accept priority override alpha. +++
Maybe so, but either way we’ll be able to test that in just a very short while.
I think that’s awesome. :)
I cannot disagree with those two sentences. :)
I sincerely hope that you know more about the field that *that*.
They may be much closer than you think. ...start with computers and robots that learn from their own experience...and then go from there.
Oh...and Google and IBM are only two out of several companies that are putting a whole lot of money into it.
Now, that said, the Transhumanists keep redefining their meaning of AGI, sometimes on a daily basis, so take their commentary for what it’s worth.
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