Posted on 03/16/2017 6:13:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. This might sound like science fiction, but Google's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has an 86 per cent success rate. Kurzweil says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our brains and machines will be smarter than human beings. He claims this is already happening with technology - especially with our addiction to our phones - and says the next step is to wire this technology into our brains.
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Until the machines determine the most logical course is to exterminate the humans which pose the greatest danger to their continued existence
Dune’s “Butlerian Jihad” seemed like an interesting theory.
Now I’m watching Google test censorship algorithms based on flagged comments on sites like Huffington Post. You know the data set is biased far left wing, but they’ll be able to say “oh, it is unbiased, the computer censored it, it is all logical”. The biases in the data sets and further bias from liberal moderators builds in the far left bias, and they deny it IS biased.
Then there are the medical systems that already use the quality of life years metric, that it isn’t as bad if you die past 65 or under the age of 5. Thus the “efficiency” and “moral” cost saving solutions to not do cancer screenings past certain ages and do it less often if you’re old, to let babies die that we don’t think their lives are worth it.
Now imagine such a system with broader inputs.
One episode of Gene Roddenberry’s “Andromeda” had people revolting against an AI because its solutions were without compassion, as in “to cheapest way to contain the pandemic is kill the infected”, and its solution to unhappy people who wanted things to change was to kill the critics to maintain social order.
Liberals say conservatives are crazy, will the default solution be to ban them from owning guns because they are flagged as crazy once they admit their ideology? Or refusing to let them have children and/or recommending abortion because they are “crazy”? They also think conservatives are stupid, so that could be used against them, too.
We’ve already had the federal government weaponize the IRS to deny tax exempt status to conservative groups, audit people as punishment and leak sensitive details. Now imagine the ability to weaponize medical care, something they’ve started to do in the UK punishing a pro-life protestor by saying we won’t treat you for anything unless life threatening (legally required).
Do you get denied care or wait listed to the same effect if flagged as a dissident? I can certainly imagine AIs programmed to devalue politically incorrect people for the reasons I listed above, when it already devalues people based on age.
And if all of this is decided by a “computer” when the programmers’ biases are proven per big tech’s systematic censorship of conservatives, you know anything they create will be just as biased against US.
Example:
Apple, Twitter, Google, Instagram collude to defeat Trump
http://observer.com/2016/08/tech-companies-apple-twitter-google-and-instagram-collude-to-defeat-trump/
I believe the term is “void of the spirit”
In a world where brains are connected to the internet can non-connected brains keep up? What happens if the internet reverses control?
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
https://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
You’ll either have AIs or clones but not both, since each makes the other redundant.
I think the singularity will be mans self created hell. People will be promised uploaded immortality and will find their essence trapped incorporealy within a finite closed system. The delusion will be the avoidance of physical death.
“We have already achieved that by dumming down the population.”
‘dumbing’. :)))
Just download the Stanford package of choice and be an expert in three days!
Physics: 3 days to download.
Gender studies: 2.4 mins.
Judging from today’s products, I don’t think we’re going to get there at all. At least not the majority of humans.
There will be superhuman athletes, but the average human will be more of a couch potato than ever.
Lol! But that quote—”Super humans that are sexier, stronger and smarter will arrive by 2029”—sounds familiar in spirit...
“Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11)
The FACT that the architects of Babel WERE dispersed in confusion gives me very little hope that their sexier, stronger and smarter heirs will succeed in their fantasies. Just one more of a million reasons I love GOD, the One who confuses!
I was suggesting a process even beyond that.
There was a time where you could imagine a limit based on the ability of a person/programmer to consume the available learning based on time, and on the constraints of human knowledge.
Now, virtually all information is available in the blink of an eye. Using systems based on the “Scientific Method” new age computers will be able to posit theories, test them, and create “new” information on a scale that up to now is unimaginable.
And when it uploads that to the “cloud” other machines that are learning will immediately add that to the knowledge base.
And the cycle would repeat, at the speed of light.
If this knowledge is being created for our benefit it will be great.
If the machines really start to do this, it will not take long before they simply stop paying attention to us.
What makes you think this isn't already happening? Because it is.
Also check out "Mindgamers." They are having an event around this movie on 3/28. It's all about connecting your brain to the matrix, I mean Internet.
“Imagine machines that can learn, identify issues and opportunities, and then perform tests and improvements at a speed way beyond that of humans.
The machines will have the potential to become “smarter” than people because they will have a huge pipeline of information in the brain.”
Well, they will have no instincts and no pragmatic experience to temper their “intelligence”. They will end up like academics in ivory towers, dreaming things without a care for whether they would work in reality, except on steroids.
Given that climate models have built in biases and are used to shape policy based on the creators’ moral/political code, I expect to see the same issues replicated in everything from economic models to healthcare projections.
The lack of conservatives in these fields leads to severe liberal bias built into the data sets, the selected “good” models during the training phase of the AIs and thus solidified liberal bias in the results.
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/
The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/
“And when it uploads that to the “cloud” other machines that are learning will immediately add that to the knowledge base.
“And the cycle would repeat, at the speed of light.”
— Umm, you realize you have a good screenplay there, don’t you?
Yeah, it’s been done about 100 times. Mostly on Star Trek.
My job is to trim the people involved in communications processes. With automation that the customer is not even aware of, I could cut a staff of about forty, to ten people.
We learn how to maximize the efficiency. Then we walk it back to hit the goals rom the accounting department. If THEY had a clue, those folks would be sent packing next week.
Awe, you are so humble. It’s so cute. Add that to your list too.
; )
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