Are you afraid of technological singularity?

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by johngorse • 12 years ago

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thinkerer2• 12 years ago

Reminds me of Will Smith in I Robot movie.

My answer is actually no. I think technology is somewhat a tool and the human helps to make sure it works its magic within a scope. Machine learning has also been largely been confined to a space, albeit the space has been expanding at a clip.

But I may be wrong though...

johngorse• 12 years ago

Well I agree with you at some point. But how do you look at the nanotech in general then? I think that Michio Kaku talked about how with nanotech it is possible to attack cancer cells precisely, so that imho that is some point of inteligence in your body then..

thinkerer2• 12 years ago

Yes it is possible but I think it is unlikely, or at least in the near future.

Its just like self dissolving heart stents that are programmed to release compounds to resolve body and tissue rejection as well as avoid inflammation at specific points in time. Those are in a way AI to a certain extent.

What singularity suggests is that the AI becomes even smarter than humans themselves (with artificial ability to learn and connect knowledge for application purposes) and ultimately establish as a superior race over time since they are self thinking entities. This is vastly different from what you mentioned earlier.

Thought of a more recent example, just like the upgraded sentinels in Xmen, days of future past. Exactly like that, they were programmable bots and later become self thinking and even smarter than humans and proceed to eliminate not only their programmed object (mutants) but also humans.

Are you afraid of technological singularity?

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