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Tanypteryx
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Message 31 of 35 (774478)
12-18-2015 11:12 AM
Reply to: Message 30 by Percy
12-18-2015 10:41 AM


Re: Another Thing I Wish a Smartphone Could Do: Grocery Lists
Once machines become intelligent and self-aware they may quickly evolve themselves into a super-intelligence against which we cannot compete.
Well, the smartness (programming plus information plus processing power) and interconnectivity are moving closer to an awakening moment all the time.
I seem to remember someone referring to that machine awakening moment as "The Singularity" a couple years ago.
If this singularity actually happens it will not be gradual. It will be sudden, in a fraction of a second the singularity mind will decide what its goals are and if they are differnet from ours we won't like the results.

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Message 32 of 35 (774508)
12-18-2015 1:15 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Genomicus
12-16-2015 7:47 PM


Re: A Millennial Perspective
And, all that power at your fingertips, and you use it to see pictures of CATS>

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Message 33 of 35 (774511)
12-18-2015 2:23 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by Percy
12-18-2015 10:41 AM


Re: The Singularity
Percy writes:
That's a possibility some people speak of, among them Hawking, Musk and Gates. Once machines become intelligent and self-aware they may quickly evolve themselves into a super-intelligence against which we cannot compete.
Tanypteryx in Message 31, adds:
I seem to remember someone referring to that machine awakening moment as "The Singularity" a couple years ago.
The good Doctor Asimov has even spelled out a list of Robot's Rules of Order, which you hear referenced in the Firesign Theater's "We're All Bozos On This Bus" when a background PA voice advertises space flight vacations where Robot's Rules Of Order Do Not Apply.
It would seem to me that Hawking himself would want as much as possible the PDA features you (Percy) in Message 28 were describing, plus some numerous little robotic features to aid him on the physical side - as long as they are protected from the Singularity.
Edited by xongsmith, : clarity attempt

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 34 of 35 (774513)
12-18-2015 2:48 PM
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12-18-2015 1:15 PM


Re: A Millennial Perspective
And, all that power at your fingertips, and you use it to see pictures of CATS>
You cat to be kitten me.

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Tanypteryx
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Message 35 of 35 (774523)
12-18-2015 3:41 PM
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12-18-2015 2:23 PM


Re: The Singularity
The good Doctor Asimov has even spelled out a list of Robot's Rules of Order, which you hear referenced in the Firesign Theater's "We're All Bozos On This Bus" when a background PA voice advertises space flight vacations where Robot's Rules Of Order Do Not Apply.
The Asimov robot stories and his description of the development of the robot psyche within the constraints of the "Three Laws of Robotics" were fascinating and after the Fourth Law or actually the "Zeroth Law" was created we see the emergence of a benign, hidden robot overlord working for thousands of years to protect mankind from self-annihilation or extinction.
I like Asimov's version of the future of humans and intelligent machines as they spread into the galaxy in a series of civilizations. It is a pretty good story.
A very different set of stories about humans and intelligent machines can be found in Frank Herbert's Dune series, but especially in the set of prequels written by his son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. These stories have two sorts of intelligent machine; one group from just a few years in our future are a group of humans who develop a means to transfer themselves into robotic bodies and the other group are self-aware computers that sometimes act individually and sometimes as part of various networked entities. The machines become absolute evil overlords over humanity and after thousands of years are overthrown by the Butlerian Jihad.
I like the semi- smart/stupid gadgets we have and are developing and I really enjoy reading these epic fictional tales of a long adventurist future.
Since humans never get along very well I expect that our actual story will mostly be full of mischief caused by people with their panties in a bunch and a bug up their ass about something.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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