Technological Singularity Explained

[Phaedron777]

humans were made in the image of God, aliens were not. why? Humans are male and female, aliens tend to be 1 sex or no sex, similar in appearance, and have no emotions. Inevitably, creatures are wicked which prompts the need for more government. Eventually, technology allows for complete control of all aspects of all things on a world. Aliens are known for their collective consciousness, oneness, singularity, lack of freedom and life, etc. What they call enlightened I call slavery of the evil.

[McmullenEJ]

right as if, you forgot one key important peice of information

einstein what are the little robo boys gonna play as

their super nintendo? also im not sure if you argue brain is

obsolete or thinking cuz it almost sounds blah. art has no time

for achy breaky machines or biological-wise only in its truest form.

[goldbullet50]

I have always thought that humans will extinct due their own intelligence. Singularity would be a perfect example.

[sofiasmartis]

enigma was not relay-based (nor a computer).

the german relay-based universal computer Z3 wasn't used for encryption. they are somewhat independent developments, just saying…

[andenandenia]

Why do we need intelligence?

[babertron]

I feel comfortable knowing that it's virtually impossible for AI to have libritarian free will.

I do fear that we could create destructive "Goals" for extremely advanced AI. Even then, I feel that their complex learning capabilities would be seriously hindered due to the lack of free will among other things...

[droedup92]

human technology advances 44.5 years every 12 months thanks to reverse engineering. the public is not aware of this because it would be much too overwhelming so new technology gets slowly integrated into society. Technology is advancing at very fast rate I don't think it will be long before Computers are smarter then humans maybe even in my own lifetime. People need to accept that this stuff isn't just science fiction anymore. the singularity will eventually happen.

[12NiBer12]

@droedup92 I agree with you. Singularity will happen, and we do not know how it will affect us, and more importantly, the AI.

[smokenfly514]

4:25 trippiest thing I've ever heard or seen

[Raflegan]

@smokenfly514 ..That's from page 362 of B. Russell & A. N. Whitehead's Principia Mathematica... a delineated proof that 1 + 1 = 2, taking a whole page.

[smokenfly514]

@Raflegan I meant the guy's voice.. but boy is that fascinating, no joke

[Raflegan]

@smokenfly514 ...oh well that's autotune, don't you know about "autotune the news?" ;-P

[NHTU708]

Mkay. People that believe this sheet are virgins and never had a girlfriend.

[fwesh1]

SKYNET

[GodofSpanaway]

We need to make science more mainstream, get the average people interested in the future. With all the negative media out there, people are being taught to fear the future. There is nothing radical about transhumanism, it's only natural for an advanced civilization.

[Tridecalogism]

All I can say is that - Thank god for electronic tax return!

[thegafferlives]

Could the singularity run Crysis?

[SnowCanary]

@thegafferlives Maybe Crysis 2 on DX10. DX11 would be too extreme for it.

[drdoodlecharles]

does anyone think that in the speech at the end by carl sagen reminds me of the way the main agent speaks in the film the matrix! with slow pauses here and there

[siskinedge128]

@drdoodlecharles Have you considered that this was not an accedent, on the part of the washoski brothers.

[TZMareThieves]

@drdoodlecharles HAHA He speaks exactly like agent Smith.

[VulcanFleet]

If you look at the graphs at 5:04 and 5:56, you will see that they are concave up on an exponential graph. Think about that for a second.

[Exaternatet]

Translated into Russian T.T

[joshie9119]

Are they saying that in 50 years humans will not have the inteligence to invent computer related things?

[Siticum]

Daddy, can I be a futurist too?... say; if i'm gay and was to sing about general things everyone is faced with every day? please daddy?

[jukio02]

im studing engineering, this really interests me.

[JohnFrumFromAmerica]

you get thumb up for remixing Carl Sagan

[calwee3]

this video is really useful, but did you see the man with the golden voice?

[GronTheMighty]

I think anyone who can enjoy and be entertained and engulfed in contemplation by a video with this topic would greatly enjoy reading the Hyperion series of books once or twice :)

[birdsterboss]

@GronTheMighty Is Hyperion as good as Dune?

[GronTheMighty]

@birdsterboss Well i liked it better than i did Dune.. but that's not a guarantee that you would too ^^

[ipmasked]

It is impossible for a tech. singularity . We will all die. We have to accept as all other humans and animals shared the same fight.

[Linkage1992]

@ipmasked We need more people like you to fuck off. The worlds too overpopulated as it is, and we can't have everyone living forever. Me, I plan on becoming a cyborg and dying sometime in the 2500s.

[Aspanaut]

The part with carl sagan tripped me out lol

[nilbud]

The Technological Singularity doesn't have anything to do with AI. If you want to see something scary, look at US corporations, immortal, uses Human agents, amoral and can now buy politicians.

[JoeCavy4]

@nilbud Insightful post. Humans like pyramidal shaped social constructs. We are as insects on that regard. Just like "Animal Farm" the Singularity may be hijacked by some jerk.

[PinkProgram]

5 years if humans listened to me ^_^

[MsBondkbond]

This is a great video!! Very well done with lots of different sources!!

[dabawla]

multiVAC!!!!

[AlKiyder]

@dabawla Can entropy ever be reversed?



[noxure]

@AlKiyder Not into the exact state it previously was, but chaotic systems can take on new states of order, that process is called negentropy (or syntropy).

Examples of negative entropy are the metabolism and evolution of living organisms and abstract phenomena like creativity.

A simply way to demonstrate negentropy is to put several pendulums on a board with wheels. No matter how random the pendulums swing, they will eventually synchronize because the chaotic movement cancels each other out.

[HomeMadeVinyl]

view # 6000!

[Anon371]

So everybody? Think you'll be able to live until 2040, when we can create a robot clone of ourselves that can live forever and carry on our legacies?

[ashleylovesdaddy]

Perversely, I admit I hope I see computers overtake us in our intelligence. Humans are not qualified to control advanced technology. I hope when the machine overlords take over, they don't make us worship them. Maybe they'll build us better cities and power them by jacking us into a vast power plant and fill our minds with visions of better worlds, while they evolve into something more amazing daily. I've seen too many movies.

[suma4m]

Nice video!

I wrote my master's thesis about technological singularity.

[frankenshizzle]

Yep, we are going to end up a a civilization floating through space on a massive flotilla because our home-world was taken over by a civilization of synthetic lifeforms that we created.. And then after a few centuries of floating around our immune-systems will degrade and we will have to wear environment suits to keep the pathogens out... And then right before a race of extragalactic hyper intelligent beings comes to destroy us, we will have to retake our homeworld...

[darkyodd]

@frankenshizzle lol stupid Quarians

[Edsgex]

@frankenshizzle

Why does that sound so familiar.....hmm?

Oh now I remember, it´s in Mass Effect, the quarian race xD!

[qsucvatz]

@Edsgex It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. - Aristotle

[amattano]

We Are close to reality is in this video

Thx a lot ,

Ps human will integrate compiuter in the brain.

[extropian314]

"All the neurons and all their connections, all the information processing power between our ears, could be met by the fastest super-computer in just 15 years."

Hey, that chart at 09:22 was for "Computers for $1000" -- not super-computers.

[27nu]

@extropian314 Note taken for re-edit 3! Coming later this summer...

[germanicelt]

The guy speaking at the end was reading from a screen.

[blanetology]

Whats the movie with the dude talking about tests...looks intense

[ShinerCCC]

I think it's Jabberwocky, it looks familiar, but I saw that years ago so I don't know for sure.

[Dirtfire]

@ShinerCCC It's 'Dragonslayer'.

[Dirtfire]

@blanetology The movie is 'Dragonslayer'.

[omniquiddity]

The most basic difference between biological/non-biological is the simple necessity of a body. Without the 'messy' endocrine/nervous systems, there are no real hormonal responses to enable the emotions. You cannot program a real emotional essence into the software because doing so merely creates a 'canned' response. At best, we might be able to merge and augment ourselves with machines but once the vagaries of the emotional body are gone then so is the humanity; all else falls short.

[forelelyon]

if we can define exactly what the endocrine/nervous systems do then we can replicate them @omniquiddity

[omniquiddity]

@forelelyon

But doing that will 'break' the humanity. We actually define ourselves by the very limitations that we have. We 'love' because we are just silly enough to do so. And who will write your future self's program which decides who/why/how you love? Or fear? Or...any emotion? Our emotional life varies day-to-day, even moment-to-moment; hormone levels are constantly changing. This gives variability to our existence. Perfection leads only to staleness. Scripting falls short.

[forelelyon]

so do genes. and evolution of the imperfect continues.

[omniquiddity]

But I'm questioning the rush to extinction. Intellectual perfection is not a favorable goal. True,emotions are only means to an end: keeping big-brained, adaptable creatures on path long enough to survive until reproducing. It just so happens to have been a serendipitous (the very definition, actually) fallout.

Losing everything to become more intelligent is neither smart nor wise.

Transhumanists are actually striving for Post-humanism. Nothing human survives their popular scenarios.

[forelelyon]

ic...could you explain yourself more when you say true emotions are the only means to an end?

are you talking spiritually?

[omniquiddity]

No spiritual implications in my meaning at all--I do not believe in the 'supernatural'. I stopped believing in magical, invisible beings long ago--nor in any amorphous, overarching universal consciousness drivel.

You misapprehended what I said. I did not say anything about 'the only' way; I said, "true, (note the comma) emotions" (as in...certainly, emotions...) are only (just) evolutionary fallout.

But I think they are too valuable to merely cast aside.

[omniquiddity]

The technological singularity extrapolated onto mankind's evolutionary path seems to dictate exponential intellectual improvement alone. 'Perfection' is one of the reasons I reject Heaven, Nirvana, etc. They all plateau into sameness and stagnation. There can only be one state of perfection. No individuality. May as well start praying again. Perfect Heaven/Nirvana whatever your flavor= Perfect Extinction!

I'm for improvement, but, what defines it?

[tubcaster]

@omniquiddity how can something human survive the end of the solar system, galaxy crashes or similar scenarios? how can you be sure that a transition to an entity a million times smarter than a human being, free from any kind of limitation whatsoever would be an unwise choice to make for the human race ?

[MaLcH10R]

@tubcaster or the next stage of human evolution.

[notrandom2]

Good stuff. you know, i believe it is Korea who are setting the first "anti cruelty" laws soley for machins/computers /A.I. It turns out, torching "tickle me Elmo's" struct a nerve in those sensitive to these concepts, and rightly so. If our children grow up thinking it's o.k. to abuse a machine, despite it's design and intelegence, what respect will they have for the future & the technological path we are setting today. I personaly have named my computer - Centri.

[particleion]

thank you for making this.. I enjoy watching other peoples work.

[wikikomoto]

fun stuff

[MegDQ721]

your adorable :)

[MegDQ721]

Is that your shrimp?

[27nu]

Yes! And the first one shown is gravid, I didn't notice until I finished filming. Lots of babies this summer.