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RE: If You Read ANYTHING I post today....read THIS
I have thought for a while that the singularity is inevitable, my only question is whether the singularity will inform us of its existence. I remember being tripped out as a kid when my father told me about Moore's law.
The supercomputer intelligence may look on us as we look on orangutans, if we are lucky.
you missed the point of the article I think.
the way I interpret what he said is that the 'singularity' is a moving target.
We're sitting on it RIGHT NOW...as it takes us into the future.
The mathematical definition of 'singularity' (in part) is that the math breaks down at a certain point (the singularity) beyond which we're breaking new trial. Unpredictable.
was the internet predicted?
was the BlockChain?
what else has happened lately that came as a BIG SURPRISE
(never saw THAT coming)
The singularity is moving...and we're on it right now.
The singularity is when one of these machines becomes self aware and/or conscious. what the exponential functions shows us is that it is probably coming sooner rather than later. What was funny was that I had never seen the first logarithmic chart and had only seen ones that looked like ones he showed later. His point was that no matter where we get on that chart it will always look the about the same, but that of course is only as long as we are in charge of technology, when it becomes in charge of itself all bets are off, they might want to and be able to double their capacity every day.
I'm not sure what distributed ledgers have to do with AI or Moore's law.
I'm not sure what distributed ledgers have to do with AI or Moore's law.
me neither...other than the fact that no one predicted that they would happen so in a sense they were on the other side of a technological singularity at some time in the past.
I remain unconvinced that human level AI is possible at all...much less anytime soon.
there is not A singularity there is THE singularity. It will be the equivalent to meeting an advanced space alien, one that knows everything about everyone on earth and can control anything connected to the grid. Look at that graph, it's only a matter of time, and not a long one, until they are smarter than us. Human intelligence on the same graph seems to have peaked about 80 years ago. I hope you are right and we never quite get there but that graph suggests it's inevitable and perhaps sooner than it's easy to appreciate.
consider how much money you would have to pay someone if you paid them one cent on the first day of the month and doubled it each day for a month. would you agree to such a contract?