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The singularity is imminent. We will produce an intelligence the exceeds our own which will proceed to take over control of our world. In fact, it may already have happened...
... I said too much...
More seriously, even a self-driving car is a step in that direction, but does not qualify as "intelligent" in a human sense. Ditto Watson (the Jeopardy-playing supercomputer that is now being more gainfully employed in medical and other research tasks). They still aren't capable of truly independent, creative thought but are slaves to very complex algorithms. Watson, for instance, only seems smart because it can search huge fucking databases extremely quickly to come up with an answer. Ditto Siri/Cortana/Google Voice. What we are seeing is programmers taking advantage of massive increases in processing and storage power enabled by networking large numbers of computers together to create "smarter" applications with extremely complex algorithms and some learning ability (ie. they can create their own algorithms on the fly) but they still don't match up to human intelligence and won't for some time to come. Quantum computing might eventually let us come closer to human-like intelligence but it's still in its infancy.
So no need to start fearing Skynet yet, but scientists and ethicists are starting to debate and discuss the ramifications of smarter, more human-like machine intelligences. Hopefully, that debate can keep pace with the technology.
Yes ,what we are looking at right now are probably just complicated algorithms that leave an impression of an intelligent behavior.We seem to have a technology developed to do it right there “ of the shelf“ .But I think it sets the scenery and some sort of infrastructure ,also creating a “demand“ and opportunity to go beyond ...as a natural next step.
By the way I see the talk about basic income in msm as a sign more people might be put out of work because of automation too as is mentioned here .
And to create an intelligent machine.first we would have to be able to understand intelligence itself as a phenomenon. At least that is what I think.Don't know if that is possible for us.
Seems like a really huge task to accomplish .
Somehow I think it will be tried to shortcut that problem firstly by HQis of man with a machine . Talking about some scary possibilities there.
Wonder how much of it might already be going on somewhere in restricted research facilities.
about the assassination of the most prominent,charismatic and powerful politician of his time .And his brother followed shortly after?