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I do like Kurzweil but I don't know if we can even identify a singularity. It will just seem normal, like now. One could say financially, the big world banks ar
by sebringj 10y ago
I do like Kurzweil but I don't know if we can even identify a singularity. It will just seem normal, like now. One could say financially, the big world banks are so far ahead of us, there's no going back, but life seems the same, AI is already making decisions for financial transactions and for even recruiting people (as I've made some of this), but life seems the same. I think our zeitgeist moves along gently so we don't notice things. The only thing that will be certain is Kurzweil's frequency of saying "exponential" will only increase exponentially as he gets older.
- goatlover 10y agoFor people living 500 years ago, modern society would be a singularity. Much of the things we can do with technological would be considered magic or witchcraft. Our scientific understanding has revised our picture of the world in pretty radical ways.
- sebringj 10y agoI agree. I also think our brain has remained the same yet has been fire hosed with new information as things progress farther and farther along, well at least those who try to keep up with that sort of thing. Eating cooked meat was a big deal in having larger brains. We will need something like that but of course very quickly to be able to process the new stuff. I think that's Kurzweil's hope or "singularity", just a better iphone that let's us understand as fast as downloading that's within us to make it way over simplified, or an "internet of brains". Side note, "certainty" is a feeling. If we were given extra senses outside of our own brain and given a sense of certainty this was ourselves, we would never know if we were controlled by the AI itself, similarly to how the brain stem hosts the higher brain functions such as the prefrontal cortex. Random, sorry.