Visions of the future 3

The Intelligence Revolution Monday 05 November 2007 21:00-22:00 BBC Four
In the opening instalment, Kaku explains how artificial intelligence will revolutionise homes, workplaces and lifestyles, and how virtual worlds will become so realistic that they will rival the physical world. Robots with human-level intelligence may finally become a reality, and in the ultimate stage of mastery, we'll even be able to merge our minds with machine intelligence.
For the first time on television, see how a severely depressed patient can be turned into a happy person at the push of a button - all thanks to the cross-pollination of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

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[pepetruelo]

Virtual reality is "liberating" because "I feel more like myself when I'm not under social pressures".

Great, so we grab all the people suffering from social pressures and we connect them to virtual reality. Now they are free! What a wonderful world!

[DoctorSensitive]

You think too statically about the future. As robots free us from menial tasks we humans would create other job incentives, like those associated with alternative energy production, solar panels, fuel cells, working as designers in the virtual realm, etc. I have a job whereby I work about 5 hours a day on the computer, and I still manage to squeeze in an hour of exercise a day. Only the lazy minded would become lazy of body. Time to take care of ourselves.

[Katherine2011ism]

Divide et impera - Divide and Conquer!

[Domzdream]

At 1:55)

You don't for stronger bonds. Maybe in a virtual sense, but....

Please don't tell me that an online bond is stronger than that of two soldiers relying on each other for survival.

Nonsense!

In fact, I'd put my whole career on the line by saying that she'll get further and further away from human interaction rather than closer as she likes to postulate.

[huricane887]

@northernvoxmedia Your right people should toughen up and learn from these hardships instead of escape them.

[zaafarj]

the future doesnt have a life

[g0tcadaver]

@pepetruelo

I'd rather we just worked on fixing those social pressures rather than just escaping them. A virtual world sounds sad and unfulfilling. I do not look forward to this world.

[BonePanzer]

26 Of course she prefers the virtual world. Just fucking look at her. I mean, damn..do you even care about how you look?

[RichNDangerous1]

@jmonteleone0927 ha i know

[lilHippo]

any one who perfers a vitural world to the real world is someone stuck in the matrix. they are in the cave and are cowards.

[northernvoxmedia]

I love tehchnology but living a virtual life OVER the real one? Fuck that. Sure, real life is hard, and often scary, and almost always a let down, but what the hell are you suposed to do? Become a coward and pretend you're a wizard?

[gaallegos]

Modular robot? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!