Website review: What is the Singularity? | The Sing...
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Sirtalksalot rated 5 days ago- Thing is with AI, I don't think there going to be a time when AI suddenly exists. Computers can already think for themselves, and program themselves. So what actually counts as AI? WOuld it have emotion? Our emotions are based on our instinct to survive, what would a computer's be based on?
- Misanator rated 5 months ago
- Reminds me of Asimov... Love it.
- silenus3milenio rated 5 months ago
- "The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation. Some of these technologies seem likely to arrive much earlier than the others, but there are nonetheless several independent technologies all heading in the direction of the Singularity â€" several different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence."
- AttemptingReason rated 5 months ago
- As good an introduction as any to the concept of a technological singularity.
- skivicious rated 5 months ago
- in a way i would like to be around when and if that happens
- myschief1 rated 6 months ago
- I'm saving this to read in the AM...my wee little brain is just too distracted right now.
- matthewbhere rated 10 months ago
- If you haven't heard of the Singularity, suffice it to say that it is something that will transform humanity more in the next handful of decades than anything else has in history. This site gives an explanation.
- nooner rated 10 months ago
- Thanks for this http://bobloblian.stumbleupon.com/ From the page: "The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation. Some of these technologies seem likely to arrive much earlier than the others, but there are nonetheless several independent technologies all heading in the direction of the Singularity - several different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. A future that contains smarter-than-human minds is genuinely different in a way that goes beyond the usual visions of a future filled with bigger and better gadgets. Vernor Vinge originally coined the term "Singularity" in observing that, just as our model of physics breaks down when it tries to model the singularity at the center of a black hole, our model of the world breaks down when it tries to model a future that contains entities smarter than human." Faster and more precise intelligent computational abilities does not necessarily mean better intelligence. Without emotional intelligence it's destined to remain a distantly different kind of intelligence...woodenly robotic.
- jajajayu rated 11 months ago
- "But leave aside for the moment the question of how to build smarter minds, and ask what "smarter-than-human" really means. And as the basic definition of the Singularity points out, this is exactly the point at which our ability to extrapolate breaks down. We don't know because we're not that smart. We're trying to guess what it is to be a better-than-human guesser." I agree with JesseMat's "complex modes of perception," and I'd add data interpretation to that. Also, I think the man who inspired the character of the movie Rain Man (Kim Peek) may be a person whose intelligence is simply out of place in the present environment of human understanding. The rest of us just don't know how to fully communicate with him and channel his abilities into something more comprehensible, "useful" as it were. Anyway, Peek and AI may be useful models for each other in interpreting this question of superintelligence.
- JesseMat rated 11 months ago
- Here's my problem with the singularity. I feel like they have a naive view of intelligence. Specially, they equate information processing with intelligence. And that if we can increase our ability to process information, we will thereby have increased intelligence. While I feel that information processing is a part of intelligence, one can still have extremely high levels of information processing while being considered unintelligent. Think Rain Man.
I feel a large part of intelligence is something like complex modes of perception. And computers are extremely limited on their perception. Creating more information processed faster whether it be solely by a computer or by symbiosis with man will not guarantee greater "intelligence" because that is limited and dependent upon other factors that are not taken into consideration. - Here's my problem with the singularity. I feel like they have a naive view of intelligence. Specially, they equate information processing with intelligence. And that if we can increase our ability to process information, we will thereby have increased intelligence. While I feel that information processing is a part of intelligence, one can still have extremely high levels of information processing while being considered unintelligent. Think Rain Man.
