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Who's "we"? Humanity, or whatever we create to succeed us?

• coldtea 11y ago
  Who said we'll create anything to succeed us? (I mean besides Kurzweil and his ilk)? I find much more probable that we'll wipe ourselves out in one way or another. We had some means to do so since the 40s, but since we added a lot more sick ways to our arsenal...
  • kamaal 11y ago
    >>Who said we'll create anything to succeed us? No body wakes up everyday to write unit test cases for Skynet 1.0 But people are working towards building robots that will replace a lot of human activity. It won't be sudden, it will be gradual, it will be so slow you won't have a way of stopping it. Opposition to any such thing will get you labelled as a luddite. At some point in time trains will run autonomously, followed by courier vans then may be cars, Amazon will decide buying a fleet of robots from boston dynamics yields better returns than hiring people to word at their warehouses. As algorithms get intelligent and sensors get better, march towards singularity is a question of when, not if. Your enemy is automation. Not Kurzweil. The slow march towards singularity didn't start two decades back. It started when the wheel was built and rudimentary stone tools were invented by hunter gatherers.