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Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit
runamock writes "Brilliant technologists like Ray Kurzweil and Rodney Brooks are gathering in San Francisco for The Singularity Summit. The Singularity refers to the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence beyond which the future becomes unpredictable. The concept of the Singularity sounds more daunting in the form described by statistician I.J Good in 1965: 'Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.'"
Stop trying to inject actual logic and maths into discussion about the singularity! This is the Nerd Rapture, and heresy will not be tolerated!
Even when the ultra-intelligent machines take over, they will still need humans for Geico commercials.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
That and tofu is slightly rare on the African plain.
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And it could, like, evolve or something, to enslave mankind, and send a robot back in time to kill the guy who will kill the machines.
And maybe it has already happened, and we're already trapped!
Or maybe it'll have feelings, and a robot will realize that it just isn't right to enslave us, and robots will fight other robots.
Or maybe when we tell it about love it'll get totally confused and say "ILLOGICAL.. ILLOGICAL.." and then explode.
It might also absorb all human consciousness and become a God at the universe's end.
It could also integrate humans into the collective and use them to do its bidding in a hive-mind style, and float around space in a giant gray cube.
Also I expect no-one will realize that giving it control of the world's weapons is a bad idea, and there'll be one guy who knows it's up to no good who will be proven right when it's too late.
Anyway I think whatever happens we've already thought of everything it could possibly do, and I applaud Hollywood and The Singularity Summit for figuring these details out.
Now all they need to do is figure out how we could improve on a massively intricate, baffling web of trillions of neurons and hundreds of millions of years of evolution in a few decades with processors that don't resemble neurons and are inefficient at simulating them.
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And Scarecrows, Tin Men, little girls and their little dogs too
Been there, done that. Would have got the T-shirt, except that Dave was too emotional about the situation.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.