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Skynet goes online today, starts its attack on humanity April 21

I sure am. I already called Time Warner and Verizon Wireless and told them they could take their bills and shove it!
 
Ready? I've been ready. I've increased my internet speed to assist Skynet in their take over.
I'm poised to be the new human ruler of the world...

(or so the voices keep telling me)
 
It's pretty awesome passing by the big dates of past sci-fi classics. I remember when even the year 2000 was like some amazing future date when everything was going to be amazing (yes, I am old, born in '77!!).

Interestingly, the concept of the AI 'singularity' continues to get more solid, and it's perhaps inevitable that within our lifetimes we *will* become secondary as humans in terms of sheer intelligence and complex thought ability. Seems like the best estimates put the singularity at ~2035 or so. What happens then? I have no clue.

Related, for the curious :

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzweil
 
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GodlessAstronomer said:
Are you prepared?
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I googled this because I thought it was always in August but this date is from that tv show I never watched.

In the Terminator storyline, Skynet was originally installed by the military to control the national arsenal on August 4, 1997. On August 29 it gained self-awareness, and the panicking operators, realizing the extent of its abilities, tried to pull the plug. Skynet perceived the attempt to deactivate it as an attack and came to the conclusion that all of humanity would attempt to destroy it. To defend itself, it determined that humanity should be exterminated.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
 
NikolaeVarius said:
Wait a minute. I swear that the reason Skynet nuked humans was because it became self aware and realized that the only way to save humans from killing each other was to kill them personally, thereby ensuring it's objective.
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No! It saw humanity as a threat to it, and therefore perpetrated the first strike.
 
I was gonna say... I distinctly recall that date passing in 1997. Did not realize an alternate universe with different skynet dates was dreamt up.
 
Arkaign said:
Interestingly, the concept of the AI 'singularity' continues to get more solid, and it's perhaps inevitable that within our lifetimes we *will* become secondary as humans in terms of sheer intelligence and complex thought ability. Seems like the best estimates put the singularity at ~2035 or so. What happens then? I have no clue.
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We will never become secondary to a machine for complex thought, no machine will ever consider the things humans do. Like mullets.
 
Malak said:
We will never become secondary to a machine for complex thought, no machine will ever consider the things humans do. Like mullets.
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Hmm. I'm not really so sure. We're nothing more than biological machines anyway, carbon-based and electrochemically powered. Complex for sure, but I think obsolescence is unavoidable, even if it's at our own hands. Everything is merging in the area, and if Kurzweil is essentially correct, a lot of the early work will be with cybernetics and human enhancement.

I think the real tipping point is when an AI is created with the capability of self-correction and autonomous self-creation (given access to contemporary tools, materials, elements, etc, with the ability to add and modify itself at will). Such a creation with the capacity to self-analyze and hold it's entire knowledge in context simultaneously, processing many hundreds of trillions of operations per second, would probably evolve faster than you could watch and understand it. The early days shall be, and always have been, filled with half-baked fumbling failures though. Computer processing power, though it is almost immeasuarbly greater than even a decade ago, is still quite weak, and the fundamentals of writing artificial intelligence are also in their relative infancy. What a difference a few decades make though. Think ~1940-~1970, from no nuclear power to moonwalks and thermonuclear weapons. Or ~1970~2000, from basically zero public computing devices to a worldwide global network that spreads information ceaselessly by volumes that would have seen laughable to anyone that hadn't seen it in person. Hell, we carry cell phones that have considerably more computational and storage power than Nasa had it totality during the 1960s, and it's commonplace. Now we are on the heels of the Higgs-boson, generating artficially created organs, able to create simple organic computing devices, and generally on the precipice of a wide range of somewhat daunting possibilities.

It's safe to say that over the next 20-30 years, we're gonna see some serious shit 😀
 
Arkaign said:
Hmm. I'm not really so sure. We're nothing more than biological machines anyway, carbon-based and electrochemically powered. Complex for sure, but I think obsolescence is unavoidable, even if it's at our own hands. Everything is merging in the area, and if Kurzweil is essentially correct, a lot of the early work will be with cybernetics and human enhancement.

I think the real tipping point is when an AI is created with the capability of self-correction and autonomous self-creation (given access to contemporary tools, materials, elements, etc, with the ability to add and modify itself at will). Such a creation with the capacity to self-analyze and hold it's entire knowledge in context simultaneously, processing many hundreds of trillions of operations per second, would probably evolve faster than you could watch and understand it. The early days shall be, and always have been, filled with half-baked fumbling failures though. Computer processing power, though it is almost immeasuarbly greater than even a decade ago, is still quite weak, and the fundamentals of writing artificial intelligence are also in their relative infancy. What a difference a few decades make though. Think ~1940-~1970, from no nuclear power to moonwalks and thermonuclear weapons. Or ~1970~2000, from basically zero public computing devices to a worldwide global network that spreads information ceaselessly by volumes that would have seen laughable to anyone that hadn't seen it in person. Hell, we carry cell phones that have considerably more computational and storage power than Nasa had it totality during the 1960s, and it's commonplace. Now we are on the heels of the Higgs-boson, generating artficially created organs, able to create simple organic computing devices, and generally on the precipice of a wide range of somewhat daunting possibilities.

It's safe to say that over the next 20-30 years, we're gonna see some serious shit 😀
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As long as gravitational field displacement is one of them before I die I'll be happy. Newtonian chemical reaction mass rockets will get us nowhere.

And exon replacement/resequencing therepy to fix... well... anything.
 
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exdeath said:
As long as gravitational field displacement is one of them before I die I'll be happy. Newtonian chemical reaction mass rockets will get us nowhere.

And exon replacement/resequencing therepy to fix... well... anything.
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I approve of your comments sir 🙂
 
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