Singularity

[jillyjam]

My husband told me he read an interesting article today about the concept of Singularity. Basically he said that with the way technology is advancing, in 30 years or so we will have the capacity to create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than us. And human progress will explode, because that greater intelligence will create intelligence greater than itself, leading to the solution to every economic and social problem. Sounds scary to me in that we will no longer be dominant, what does everyone else think?

 

[billwald]

Depends if we keep them in boxes so we can pull the switch.

 

[Kripost]

My husband told me he read an interesting article today about the concept of Singularity. Basically he said that with the way technology is advancing, in 30 years or so we will have the capacity to create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than us. And human progress will explode, because that greater intelligence will create intelligence greater than itself, leading to the solution to every economic and social problem. Sounds scary to me in that we will no longer be dominant, what does everyone else think?

Don't worry. The existence of mathematically unsolvable problems and intractable problems will put a 'limit' to solving all sorts of problems. Notice that solutions to artificial intelligence problems have a well define scope, which means outside that scope, the solution does not work.

 

[ps139]

My husband told me he read an interesting article today about the concept of Singularity. Basically he said that with the way technology is advancing, in 30 years or so we will have the capacity to create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than us. And human progress will explode, because that greater intelligence will create intelligence greater than itself, leading to the solution to every economic and social problem. Sounds scary to me in that we will no longer be dominant, what does everyone else think?

I think there is a reason why artificial intelligence is "artificial." As long as man creates it, it can never come close to the real thing.

That idea of the future is indeed scary. Let's for now assume it is possible. Would we really want it? Do we want machines deciding things for us? Perhaps their answer to world hunger involves murdering those who are hungry.

 

[five]

There are some technological philosophers who believe that the internet will actually be the first artificial creature to become self-aware.

 

[ps139]

How do they define "Self-aware"?

 

[five]

How do they define "Self-aware"?

To understand that it exists and that it can think for itself. "I think, therefore I am." and such.

Of course, passing the Turing Test will definitely help determine how aware it is.

 

[ps139]

I think therefore I am.
I do not believe any machine can ever accomplish this. If this were ever to happen, it would completely rock my world. I believe it is impossible at the most fundamental level. And if I were not Christian, if I were some other religion, or no religion at all, I still do not think I could ever seriously entertain that as a possibility.

What is the Turing Test?

 

[five]

I think therefore I am.
I do not believe any machine can ever accomplish this. If this were ever to happen, it would completely rock my world. I believe it is impossible at the most fundamental level. And if I were not Christian, if I were some other religion, or no religion at all, I still do not think I could ever seriously entertain that as a possibility.

What is the Turing Test?

I'm not sure that the technology we're using currently is sophistocated enough to be able to create the sheer density required for transistors to create a comparable brain.

One of the interesting things about how our mind works is that it is similar to a hologram, in that memories are stored through interference patterns in brain waves. Since the density of neurons in our brain is so high, the electrical currents travelling through our brain exhibits wave-like behaviour. This gives us an incredibly efficient way to recall information by association.

Companies such as IBM are working to develop holographic databases which will recall information in a similar manner. I think it's with this (not necessarily right away) technology that we will begin to see machines that are self aware and concious of their being. It's not impossible to assert that a machine could exhibit this behaviour, after all, we're just a bunch of electrical synapses, too.

The turing test is this:

You have a person and a computer in two different rooms and both are pretending to be a person.

You have a third party communicate with the two others separately and try to determine which is the computer and which is the person (They know one is a computer, but not which).

If a program successfully fools the user, it has passed the turing test.

 

[JonF]

My husband told me he read an interesting article today about the concept of Singularity. Basically he said that with the way technology is advancing, in 30 years or so we will have the capacity to create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than us. And human progress will explode, because that greater intelligence will create intelligence greater than itself, leading to the solution to every economic and social problem. Sounds scary to me in that we will no longer be dominant, what does everyone else think?

I think he read a kind of silly article. Did they define what they meant by “more intelligent”.

 

[funyun]

My husband told me he read an interesting article today about the concept of Singularity. Basically he said that with the way technology is advancing, in 30 years or so we will have the capacity to create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than us. And human progress will explode, because that greater intelligence will create intelligence greater than itself, leading to the solution to every economic and social problem. Sounds scary to me in that we will no longer be dominant, what does everyone else think?

I seriously doubt that in 30 years we'll have the capacity to create true AC, but Moore's Law practically makes the abiltity for humans to create a machine as complex as a human brain possible and pretty much inevitable.

 

[LouTheWicked]

Mmmm, it'd be nice to have an accurate free-thinking machine that helps me in photoshop...