I think if we really want to increase our production of more powerful/intelligent/helpful designs of technology in the fastest and most efficient way possible, we really need to work on improving upon our methods of education at home and throughout the world. In other words, we need smart AND creative people in order to create/program a smart future for ourselves. So let's help ourselves by educating and stimulating the creative faculties in our brains and our fellow beings. Good luck. Go forth!
I, personally, am not expecting the shit that Kurzweil predicts until 2085 at the earliest. There's so many roadblocks hindering the path to posthumanity it's not funny.
Our profound ignorance of how the brain works, how it produces consciousness, how intelligence works, etc. In the 50, we thought artificial intelligence was 5-10 years away, and here we are over half a century later, no closer to being able to design a machine intelligence. In fact, we've mostly given up on that an now expect that the first AI will either be (1) a human brain modeled in hardware, (2) or an evolved intelligence. Either way, we won't understand how it works.
intelligence and self awareness are simply properties that stem from the complexity of the nervous system; all it would really take would be figuring out its unit: the neuron; of course there is interplay between neurons and the glia (support cells, so to speak), but its not impossible to build an intelligent machine; hell, the hardware is already there; besides, imitating biology isnt the only way to get there, you just need a sufficiently complex self-organizing system endowed with plasticity
"I, personally, am not expecting the shit that Kurzweil predicts until 2085 at the earliest."
Absolutely. He had a grossly unrealistic view of how soon we'll be able to develop a smarter-than-human machine; especially one capable of creativity, such that it can figure out how to make a more intelligent successor to itself.
I think if we really want to increase our production of more powerful/intelligent/helpful designs of technology in the fastest and most efficient way possible, we really need to work on improving upon our methods of education at home and throughout the world. In other words, we need smart AND creative people in order to create/program a smart future for ourselves. So let's help ourselves by educating and stimulating the creative faculties in our brains and our fellow beings. Good luck. Go forth!
seanotube85 2 years ago
you blew it all up you maniacs! damn you damn you all to hell!!! - planet of the apes
natureboy40 2 years ago
Kurzweil too conservative???!!! WTF?!
I, personally, am not expecting the shit that Kurzweil predicts until 2085 at the earliest. There's so many roadblocks hindering the path to posthumanity it's not funny.
OxygenBurglar 2 years ago
what roadblocks ?
matchbox555 2 years ago
Our profound ignorance of how the brain works, how it produces consciousness, how intelligence works, etc. In the 50, we thought artificial intelligence was 5-10 years away, and here we are over half a century later, no closer to being able to design a machine intelligence. In fact, we've mostly given up on that an now expect that the first AI will either be (1) a human brain modeled in hardware, (2) or an evolved intelligence. Either way, we won't understand how it works.
ReductioAdAbsurdum 2 years ago
intelligence and self awareness are simply properties that stem from the complexity of the nervous system; all it would really take would be figuring out its unit: the neuron; of course there is interplay between neurons and the glia (support cells, so to speak), but its not impossible to build an intelligent machine; hell, the hardware is already there; besides, imitating biology isnt the only way to get there, you just need a sufficiently complex self-organizing system endowed with plasticity
eyhexs 2 years ago
"I, personally, am not expecting the shit that Kurzweil predicts until 2085 at the earliest."
Absolutely. He had a grossly unrealistic view of how soon we'll be able to develop a smarter-than-human machine; especially one capable of creativity, such that it can figure out how to make a more intelligent successor to itself.
ReductioAdAbsurdum 2 years ago
bullshit
we will have it all by 2035 at the latest
matchbox555 2 years ago
Read some Kevin Kelly instead of Kurzweil for a change.
OxygenBurglar 2 years ago
kevin kelly is a wanker
matchbox555 2 years ago
Nice interview
MadPutz 2 years ago