Singularity - Who thinks it’s approaching, possibly soon?

We're watching a race to see what arrives first: the AI singularity or humanity hitting full idiocracy.

Let me be clear, the point of the book, Life After Google, which I have not read, does not appear to be directly about AI, but rather focuses on why cloud based computing is fundamentally flawed in its understanding of human knowledge and how we think and act.

He predicts that block chain information technology such as what’s utilized in cryptocurrency will lead us to the next transformation of our economy and our world culture.

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But I do know that a singularly stupid thread has already arrived and this is it.

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Sorry the thread is a little unfocused. I accept your criticism.

Oh good. Another nerd thread where they pretend to be terrified that AI will kill us all.

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Oh good. Another nerd thread where they pretend to be terrified that AI will kill us all.”

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The guy in the OP is saying the exact opposite

Were not even close baw.

Once, networks allow seamless gigabit connection that covers the planet, let me know.

Comms, whether verbal or binary, is essentially the key to establishing a hierarchy and collective mind.

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Comms, whether verbal or binary, is essentially the key to establishing a hierarchy and collective mind.

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That generally the point of Musk's crazy arse Neuralink company. He's not really interested in making the brain "smarter". He's interested in making the brain FASTER. His idea is that the average human brain is already fantastically well suited to computation. The bottleneck is our senses and how quickly information can be fed into the brain. Neuralink's whole goal is to get your brain to be able to communicate with all the world's networks as fast as your computer can communicate with the internet.

A vast majority of your time at work is spent just finding and retrieving information, not working with it. He wants to eliminate that idle down time.

Imagine how much more work you could get done all day if you could constantly read and post on TD in the background without all the typing and reading.

The sooner the better.

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If it learns abilities and is able to go above and beyond it's program in addition to altering his program i reckon that would be scary af

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That’s essentially what machine learning is doing today, but it can only do so within the parameters that a human sets.

AI that plays chess can essentially “write its own code” and make itself better at playing chess, but that’s really it. It can’t “figure out” that it needs to change it’s own scope and start doing other things any more than you and I can sprout wings and fly.