Ray Kurzweil Explains the Coming Singularity

http://bit.ly/mKPiI9 - Futurist Ray Kurzweil details the technology timeline leading up to 2029 including the downsides to Singularity.

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Comment by The Shiznit on February 11, 2012 at 6:54pm

Some more "food for thought" for those who like this subject:  

A Singular Morality?

Comment by Beanow on July 31, 2011 at 1:01am

@ Luke, interesting thought. Didn't even think about merger when I mentioned co-existence. What if the AI outpaces our brains including it's ego and preemptively uses things such as NLP to make sure we don't chose for the ego-decision when it presents itself?

Or what if the AI manages to have such a deep understanding that it will be able to convince us being non-human is better?

Comment by Luke Nelson on July 30, 2011 at 11:28pm
@Beanow When humans and AI merge we won't have those issues. The AI becomes apart of us. The only problem is keeping human's ego's in check, something we have yet to overcome.
Comment by The Shiznit on July 30, 2011 at 9:11pm

I love this guy.  He is a bit controversial; but his track record for predicting the future when it comes to technology is phenomenal.  And there are 100's of videos out there with him & his ideas in them; both on YouTube, and elsewhere on the web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

A more condensed and critical wiki entry:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kurzweil

One of my own posts here that refers to him:

http://ipowerproject.com/forum/topics/a-singular-morality

And a website on The Singularity that you might want to follow.

http://singularityhub.com/

*wink*

Comment by Beanow on July 30, 2011 at 8:29pm

Seen this one before.

The question is, when they are smarter then us and self-programming and improving. What will they think of us? Will it be the sci-fi, computers will rule the world thing, or will they be superior at being kind-hearted as well and figure out a great way to co-exist?

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