Did you know that the Singularity is coming?

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Arcadio

Arcadio

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In a few years our machines, computers, and technological advances will have reached a point in which those same computers and machines will be able to develop even better machines and computers, starting a feedback cycle of technological development which will culminate in the ability of the uman race to merge with machines and expand our minds, bodies, and even our own lifespan. Death will be significantly delayed or even prevented. The brain will become an easily-accessible source of information, just like what a memory chip is right now. There are no limits as what we can do. We will even be able to harness the power of the Sun, nearby stars and even the whole galaxy. Sadly, the rest of the Universe will still be unreachable.
 
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QurazyQuisp

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Aren't you afraid that us umans will blow ourselves up before we reach this point?

I have no faith in umanity.
 
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Though I consider the odds of a singularity happening any time soon to be extremely low, after we all get consumed by the singularity, will it be up to a crack team of burly amish superheroes to save us from the emotionless iron clutch of the ruling class of robots and free mankind?
 
Arcadio

Arcadio

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Originally posted by: Turkish
You need to stop watching Terminator.
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This is not based on any movie or fictional work. I am also not under the influence of mind-altering substances. It is based on our current technological progress and the evidence of the exponential growth of advancement of our civilization.

 
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ShadowOfMyself

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Yes it will happen but no it wont be as soon, no way... Artificial Intelligence is still soooo far away from being able to create something better than us, but yeah once it starts its over, theres no going back

We gotta find John Connor right away
 
Arcadio

Arcadio

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Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
Aren't you afraid that us umans will blow ourselves up before we reach this point?

I have no faith in umanity.
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I am actually afraid that once we create advanced artificial intelligence, it will see us as an obstacle and try to destroy us. However, there are safeguards that can be taken. Again: this is just a logical conclusion, based on likely consequences, not on a movie like The Terminator.
 
Saint Nick

Saint Nick

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Kind of interesting to think about.

Not entirely sure that this will happen that soon, though. That sounds like something that might happen in about 200+ years.
 
Arcadio

Arcadio

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Originally posted by: NightDarker
Kind of interesting to think about.

Not entirely sure that this will happen that soon, though. That sounds like something that might happen in about 200+ years.
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That's the problem with thinking that progress will occur at the same rate in the future as it is occurring right now. If the rate of progress doubles in 4 years, then it will take MUCH less than 4 years to double the rate of progress again.
 
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The. Worst. Dude.

EDIT: OK, I won't JUST be a smartass.

Since we will be approaching such a level of technical advancement, let me ask you this question I often ponder when I get REALLY high (hehe)... in the absence of actually being able to prove the existence of a human soul, what separates a computer with the ability to learn and the same computational and problem solving capacity of the human brain and your own mind? Would it be 'alive'?
 
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Originally posted by: Arcadio
I am actually afraid that once we create advanced artificial intelligence, it will see us as an obstacle and try to destroy us. However, there are safeguards that can be taken. Again: this is just a logical conclusion, based on likely consequences, not on a movie like The Terminator.
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You assume that technology will have the biological urges that organic life feels. Artificial intelligence may not see us as an obstacle, since it may feel no need to expand itself. Alternately, even if it does see us as an obstacle, it also knows it could outlast us. Humans die quite easily - just wait long enough, and a human being will die on its own.

As for the rest of it, I do think that eventually humans will be able to shed these primitive shells we find ourselves stuck in right now. Mortality will be little more than an ancient malady, finally cured by technology. Eventually, we could exist within either android bodies, or else in some kind of supercomputer system, acting as a single entity.

I'd say such a future though, with the inevitable setbacks caused by wars, natural disasters, and good old-fashioned fear of technology, would be at least 1000 years away.
But I do think that a major obstacle in the way of the advancement of Earth-based intelligence (which will no longer technically be "homo sapien" in the far future) is to overcome these primate bodies that nature cobbled together, and build something better, something made for whatever purpose we give ourselves, be it to make this star system our permanent home, or to venture out into the galaxy.

 
Arcadio

Arcadio

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Originally posted by: scott916
in the absence of actually being able to prove the existence of a human soul, what separates a computer with the ability to learn and the same computational and problem solving capacity of the human brain and your own mind? Would it be 'alive'?
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The computer will indeed be alive. However, it cannot go to heaven or hell.
 
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