Did you know that the Singularity is coming?

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: sdifox
Further proof OP is a replicant.

What is a replicant? I am not aware.

Edit: I am going to guess it's a reference to the movie Blade Runner? I have not seen that movie.

 

[mugs]

More uman than uman.

I hate you.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Martin
Is this before or after Jesus comes back?

Deus ex machina, yo.

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

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.

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.

Artificial Intelligence will have similar urges to organic life since we are the ones that are creating such AI. We will undoubtedly make it similar to us. That's the problem with our minds. We think we should be the models for everything around us.

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
Are you a Chinese?

No I'm not Chinese. Why do you ask that?

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Arcadio

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'?

The computer will indeed be alive. However, it cannot go to heaven or hell.

Because it doesn't accept digital jesus as his lord and backup program?

 

[trmiv]

Dogs hate you

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
OMG WHEN ARE THE SEX ROBOTS COMING OUT?!?!?!

No need for robots. There will be computers that can be connected to our senses to give us any experience we can imagine. Basically it will be like Virtual Reality, but it will be identical to reality. It will involve all the senses. Programmers can create any experience you can imagine and put you there.

 

[scott916]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Arcadio

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'?

The computer will indeed be alive. However, it cannot go to heaven or hell.

Because it doesn't accept digital jesus as his lord and backup program?

:music: Your own... digital... jesus... someone to back up your brain, someone to block email chains... :music:

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Arcadio

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'?

The computer will indeed be alive. However, it cannot go to heaven or hell.

Because it doesn't accept digital jesus as his lord and backup program?

Link

 

[So]

:laugh: (x2)

 

[xeemzor]

Stop posting

 

[TheTony]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
We will even be able to harness the power of the Sun

Pssst...They're called solar panels.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: TheTony

Originally posted by: Arcadio
We will even be able to harness the power of the Sun

Pssst...They're called solar panels.

Pssst...Solar Panels are infants efficiency wise. We can barely harness any of the energy given from the sun, so, naturally, more efficient models are being researched.

I think that is what he meant.

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

We will have flying cars in 7 years I can feel it!

 

[bonkers325]

damn those umans, with their advanced echnology

 

[Jmman]

I don't know if the rate of technological progress is actually growing that fast, but evidently the potency of our weed is........

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This board has its fair share of trolls, asshats, douchebags and just plain stupid bastards (far fewer than most internet forums to be fair). Yet even with all the potentially annoying posters, I've never actively hated anyone on this board until now. Everything I read by the OP makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a spork, pop my eye out, and bludgeon my other eye to a pulp with it so I don't have to read his posts any more.

Arcadio, you start ridiculous topics, you intentionally misspell human, and you purposefully avoid answering virtually every question aimed your way. You are one of the single most annoying people I have come across on the internet. Please either develop a personality not designed around intentionally antagonizing people or stop posting. Thank you.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: bonkers325
damn those umans, with their advanced echnology

on't ou ean, "amn hose umans, ith heir dvanced echnology"?

 

[Sumguy]

I think we would all have to hide inside of the plane'arium, just to be safe.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
This board has its fair share of trolls, asshats, douchebags and just plain stupid bastard (far fewer than most internet forums to be fair). Yet even with all the potentially annoying posters, I've never actively hated anyone on this board until now. Everything I read by the OP makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a spork, pop my eye out, and bludgeon my other eye to a pulp with it so I don't have to read his posts any more.

Arcadio, you start ridiculous topics, you intentionally misspell human, and you purposefully avoid answering virtually every question aimed your way. You are one of the single most annoying people I have come across on the internet. Please either develop a personality not designed around intentionally antagonizing people or stop posting. Thank you.

:laugh:

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Arcadio

Originally posted by: Turkish
You need to stop watching Terminator.

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.

In that case, I hope you're happy being single, because....

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
In a few years our macines, computers, and tecnological advances will ave reaced a point in wic tose same computers and macines will be able to develop even better macines and computers, starting a feedback cycle of tecnological development wic will culminate in te ability of te uman race to merge wit macines and expand our minds, bodies, and even our own lifespan. Deat will be significantly delayed or even prevented. Te brain will become an easily-accessible source of information, just like wat a memory cip is rigt now. Tere are no limits as wat we can do. We will even be able to arness te power of te Sun, nearby stars and even te wole galaxy. Sadly, te rest of te Universe will still be unreacable.

Fixed

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: effowe

Originally posted by: Arcadio
In a few years our macines, computers, and tecnological advances will ave reaced a point in wic tose same computers and macines will be able to develop even better macines and computers, starting a feedback cycle of tecnological development wic will culminate in te ability of te human race to merge wit macines and expand our minds, bodies, and even our own lifespan. Deat will be significantly delayed or even prevented. Te brain will become an easily-accessible source of information, just like wat a memory cip is rigt now. Tere are no limits as wat we can do. We will even be able to arness te power of te Sun, nearby stars and even te wole galaxy. Sadly, te rest of te Universe will still be unreacable.

Fixed

Fixed again.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: mugs
More uman than uman.

I ate you.

Fixed.