Posted on 04/13/2006 7:22:29 AM PDT by Neville72
Ahhhh...A kindler, gentler, HAL.
Sounds like "The Matrix".
Fascinating.
What are we talking here?
Skynet" or "The Borg"?
Wait a second, am I at FR or Slashdot??
Anyway, this is all fascinating stuff. I would venture that human life has ALREADY been irrevocably changed by technology, and has been for some time. The job I do not only didn't exist 15 years ago, it simply wouldn't have made any sense if you tried to explain it.
But AI, I don't buy it. Just because you link up an astonishing amount of processing power does not mean it's going to eventually become self-aware. Some very smart people seem to think that's how it works, as if once there's enough power, it just happens. Maybe if you're an atheist, you think it does.
You will be assimilated.
Human intelligence follows a kind of Moore's Law. Where the more we learn the faster we can learn more. It's exponential and once singularity hits it will take a major leap. We're talking the next stage of human evolution.
Colossus: This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.
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LOL... Iraq could use a heavy dose of assimilation.
Considering that most of the people who are supposed intellectual superiors (libs) make some of the most catastrophic decisions in the history of humanity, I'm not sure this singularity is a good idea.
But I'm just a neanderthal conservative.
Maybe instead I should be the first to welcome our singularity overlords...
placemark
I'm going! (If there is any space left!)
Sounds very cool.
I saw this once on an episode of the Twilight Zone. It didn't have a happy ending.
If we succeed in creating an AI, will that change your views on religion or make you an atheist? (I'm not trying to trap you or make fun of you. I am genuinely curious.)
Ultimately I don't know how you test for true self-awareness compared simply to well-mimicked self-awareness. A very complex computer could very persuasively imitate human intelligence, sure. But actually think for itself? I believe this would have to be an illusion.
Regardless of how intelligence begins -- whether spiritual or physical -- it seems to me there must be a spark, a jump-start, a something-else beyond computing ability. We're not the sum of our brain's computing power. There's something mysterious going on in there, and until we can describe that mysteriousness, we're not going to be able to create it in machines.
I very much doubt it will happen accidentally, and if it does happen that way, it won't be just because we went from a 20-Teraflop machine to a 30-Teraflop machine.
---Hubert Dreufus
""The conference will bring together a range of thinkers about AI, nanotechnology, cognitive science, and related areas for a public discussion of these important questions about our future.""
Is that so? Well, they didn't tell me about it.
Not totally in agreement...the more we learn, the more
we can forget...and misuse...
I work in an environment with many, many "smart" folks, yet
the rate of error is about the same with our new tech
toys. They might know more "tech dreck" but they have
forgotten lots of basic non tech AND tech stuff.
Multi-task?, some can't even mono-task.
Meanwhile................The Muslim world is still living in the 7th Century (and attempting to disrupt all 21st Century Civilizations).
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