I just realized by the time we invent spaceship travel, it would be AI driven

[Zeze]

Yea above is just silly. They'd need like 1 person max. All decision making would be completely AI-driven.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Actually, AI will have done away with all humans.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Our first inter-star system ship will undoubtedly be automated via some sort of AI. We'll likely reach something akin to the singularity before an actual (semi-)organic biped makes the journey.

 

[Darwin333]

Our first inter-star system ship will undoubtedly be automated via some sort of AI. We'll likely reach something akin to the singularity before an actual (semi-)organic biped makes the journey.

It is absurdly likely that our 2nd attempt at inter-star system travel will bypass our 1st attempt and beat it there by many years/decades. Might even have a 3rd and 4th attempt that overtakes each other too.

 

[Red Squirrel]

HAL9000 will be in charge of it.

 

[Darwin333]

HAL9000 will be in charge of it.

Naw, won't be until HAL9000.4.3.2.2.1 when it will really be in charge.

 

[Greenman]

AI is just the revised Frankenstein complex.
We won't be creating a God, just a better computer, and most likely windows will still suck.

 

[zinfamous]

Naw, won't be until HAL9000.4.3.2.2.1 when it will really be in charge.

Is that the version that constantly stalls on the latest Creator's update?

 

[mikeymikec]

Yea above is just silly. They'd need like 1 person max. All decision making would be completely AI-driven.

If mankind has lost all joy in life by then, sure.

"Why go to other countries for holidays? I can see them on TV!"

 

[WelshBloke]

Yea above is just silly. They'd need like 1 person max. All decision making would be completely AI-driven.

Yeah. Bring it on. It'll give us sweaty meatsacks more time to spend in the orgy rooms!

 

[Midwayman]

Well technically we already invented spaceship travel and did it with computers barely more powerful than a pocket calculator.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Not only will it be AI Driven, it will most likely have been invented and build by an AI.

It is absurdly likely that our 2nd attempt at inter-star system travel will bypass our 1st attempt and beat it there by many years/decades. Might even have a 3rd and 4th attempt that overtakes each other too.

I doubt that. It seems to me that we won't actually get around to interstellar travel until we can do it practically instantaneously. We are not going to do it at sub-light speeds, and there is probably no acceleration with any of the methods to travel between places that get around the laws of physics that don't allow FTL travel. They will all basically have no travel time.

 

[Midwayman]

I doubt that. It seems to me that we won't actually get around to interstellar travel until we can do it practically instantaneously. We are not going to do it at sub-light speeds, and there is probably no acceleration with any of the methods to travel between places that get around the laws of physics that don't allow FTL travel. They will all basically have no travel time.

Depends on how long a FTL leap takes or if its even possible. Solar system will get developed fully eventually and we won't have anywhere to expand. That and the inescapable conclusion that humanity needs to expand to survive long term. One asteroid could kill us all now. Someone will eventually get around to building a generation ship. That's feasible within known physics at least.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Solar system will get developed fully eventually and we won't have anywhere to expand.

The other option, which to me seems much more likely, is that our species will use up all our easily accessible energy and either blow ourselves up in a war over the remaining resources, or simply slide back into the stone age.

 

[OverVolt]

There is lots of AI in that photo, haha.

It is more about decision making hierarchy than anything.