The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil

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Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singuarlity—a point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology. His theories have all sorts of supporters, detractors, and critics, but do you even remember what life was like before three-year-olds had cell phones and you actually had to remember facts instead of relying on the internet? That was only 10 years ago. If Kurzweil is right, we'll have supercomputers more powerful than every human brain on the planet combined within a few decades.

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[sac2marin]

This is so amazing. Luckily we don't have to worry about a computer trying to take over the world because we can obviously limit the function of a computer. Its not like it will grow legs and break into white house and get the launch codes. lol. This will be great for humanity. More intelligence and less ignorance is key.

[Aijuswannawatch]

OK, so here is a big announcement that all of you so caught up on religion need to understand... the ONLY place "GOD" exists is within your own mind!! As a result of cultural up bringing you believe in a concept that can never be proved or disproved (well, while your alive anyway) However, we are all nothing more than collections of memories and ideas uniquely structured from our PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD AROUND US. Not all religion is cop-out for logic... just western religions; sorry Christians

[liveyourselftodeath]

@LoveAlwaysJenny Hahahah, funniest reply I've ever heard.

[7r3mm3l]

@sac2marin why would it need some launch codes? an AI could easily trigger anything that is somhow wired to the internet. maybe there is an AI hiding out there in all of our computers, just waiting for the right moment ;)

[mysticxhobo15]

i would like for him to explain how nanotechnology can allow you to email a toaster.

[LoveAlwaysJenny]

yea the world might come to tht fukk tht shit come up quik in the world ive been doing it bitchhhh i aint worried got other shit to worry about like my lady leaving me. sedzzzz fukk ur technology fukk selling my soul fukk cheaterz ull c me in the afterlife fukkk everyone. my life has been better since she kame in so if shes gone ull c the change. ill change the whole world will change ill make sure of it fukk phrophets i got my word muthafukkaaaa....

[compositesoul]

Beautiful

[C05597641]

What humans believe to be sapience is the combination of intellectual power and motivation. We can make the most powerfull computing device in creation and without giving it a complex set of goals it wont be sapient. We will have to program goals and desires before we can create a true AI and that would make us godlike. We could make something godlike and free thinking but its basic goasl would be what we have told it.

[TheJamesrocket]

in the way that ray is doing: It is a lethal force that is wearing away at the barrier that protects us from the rise of AGI. Until we perfect friendliness programming, we are just not ready for that shit.

'Its not like it will grow legs and break into white house and get the launch codes.' As if it needs physical mobility to accomplish goals in the real world. Theres nothing to prevent an artifint from obtaining the nuclear codes, even through an interface as primitive as a vt 100 terminal.

[TheJamesrocket]

@sac2marin You obviously haven't read any of the work done by eliezer yudkowsky. Had you done so, you would not trivialise the dangers of superintelligence.

'we can obviously limit the function of a computer.' No, you can't. Unless you plan to build this magic software into every computer currently produced on earth. Any substrate with enough raw processing power can eventually become self aware (though proper programming can make it happen earlier). Thats why moores law should not be applauded

[glenalanwells]

kind of like saying that the only places that minds exist are in brains, or include an entire central nervous system, so that what is part of a system is in the system and what might not be in the system might become a part of the system or something that fuels, feeds or otherwise is either an extension of the system or an intervention, a unification, a visitation, an exception, inception, an addition, a catalyst...so forth and so on. retrieved, reversed, obsolesced, enhanced n.o.t.a.