Singularity & Change
Looks at a future of rapid change everywhere and the ascendancy of artificial intelligence.
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10 years ago
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10 years ago
How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain
BY STEVEN LEVY04.25.139:30 AM
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/Google has always been an artificial intelligence […]
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11 years ago
The singularity is nearer than we think.
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11 years ago
Every so often, I check news regarding the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Project – the lab closed in 2007 but it’s purpose — “to study the potential vulnerability of engineering devices and information processing systems to the anomalous influence of the consciousness of their human operators.” — has been carried on and…[Read more]
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11 years ago
dawnb replied to the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group
Singularity & Change
Thank you for the question re the fact of singularity…it prompted me to look up the term, which I’d thought of only as an infinite point in the gravitational field – there are fascinating results online to the […]
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11 years ago
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11 years ago
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11 years ago
What science fiction discusses this fact?
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The first thought I had in answer was Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream…/Blade Runner (movie) – must admit I haven’t read the book, but the movie was suberb. Rutger Hauer’s portrayal of a constructed (artificial) sentient being was compelling. Harrison Ford played the blade runner – sent to hunt down the rogue androids…to start, he had…[Read more]
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Considering the topic of artificial intelligence and science fiction… in Robert Heinlein’s novels The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walked Trough Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, etc. computers were more apt to develope consciouness as they increased in complexity – but more significantly as…[Read more]
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11 years ago
Testing the system here..
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12 years ago
“In the PK Dick tale the android knows (underlined) its an android” But the special one, ‘Rachel’ had memory implants and thought she was a human complete with childhood memories. “She doesn’t know?” “She’s beginning to suspect, I think” “How can it not know what it is?” “Commerce is our business here, ‘More human than […]
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12 years ago
IBM announced that they are designing the computer chips that are found in all those science-fiction movies where the machines take over the world and enslave human beings.
One IBMer was quoted as saying, “When I saw the movie Terminator as a kid, I thought to myself: ‘I want to be the one that throws to switch on SkyNet to enslave all mankind!’…[Read more]
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12 years ago
Hello Hrod — Ray Kurzweil posits that this melding will provide immortality (ie part replacements forever) to humans and what? empathy (or humanity) to robots. In the PK Dick tale the android knows (underlined) its an android… in Kurzweil’s situation it’s hard to know what the hybrid would be called unless the anticedent entity might […]
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12 years ago
Hello Hrod — Ray Kurzweil posits that this melding will provide immortality (ie part replacements forever) to humans and what? empathy (or humanity) to robots. In the PK Dick tale the android knows (underlined) its an android… in Kurzweil’s situation it’s hard to know what the hybrid would be called unless the anticedent entity might […]
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12 years ago
This was one of the key themes of the movie Blade Runner, based on the Philip K Dick book ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’. The movie played up the notion of love developing in the androids, and the question of what is it to he human. One unaswered question from the movie is about […]
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12 years ago
Hi Jerome. This is great stuff you are posting! Thank you.
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12 years ago
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12 years ago
As we approach parity between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence we must consider the need for an emotional linkage to achieve a complete melding of human and machine.
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And it is almost upon us as Christopher Mims writes in MIT’s Technology Review:
“After industrial, service and social robots, Lovotics introduces a new generation of robots, with the ability to love and be loved by humans.
“Bi-directional love between human and robot — realistic, genuine, biologically inspired love — is the goal of Hooman…[Read more]
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12 years ago
Futurists, including Ray Kurzweil, predict that by 2045 bionic elements will have blurred the distinction between man and machine to the point that mankind will have become immortal and that the machines will have become humanized. Microchips no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence will be available for implantation in human […]
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We may then have awakened to the realization that such distinctions as man/machine, animate/inanimate…intent/actuality are illusory.
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12 years ago
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13 years ago
Yes, and getting closer every day.