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I also think there is an element of wishful thinking...you know, atheist scientists creating life and becoming gods.
It's a matter of getting to that stage and our current computing, outside of quantum cannot allow software to learn independently of human programming. Quantum computing would allow that. It's just not been fully realized yet.
Any scientific discovery is a two edged sword:-
It can be used beneficially for the well being of the whole
Or used for nefarious purposes
It is the demon in the Human Mind which needs addressing
originally posted by: ColeYounger
a reply to: tothetenthpower
It's a matter of getting to that stage and our current computing, outside of quantum cannot allow software to learn independently of human programming. Quantum computing would allow that. It's just not been fully realized yet.
From what I've read, most of the design people agree that we are within 10 years, 20 years maximum, of the
'singularity' phenomenon.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: tothetenthpower
Currently our ideas of consciousnesses are subjective. We don't really understand what is one and what isn't.
Its rather simple. Computers will never know that they know. They simply execute the next instruction in a precisely written program. They may appear intelligent, but the 'artificial' part of "A.I." is the tell.
The next instruction the computer executes is merely placed there by engineers who may or may not (depending on what "smart weapon" we are talking about) know what they re doing, either.
How intelligent are the cogs of war?
What if the AI itself can produce "the next line of code" for itself to execute?
It doesn't exist yet, okay. But knowing is something different than just rote repetition of ever larger choices stored in ever growing databases.
Really its just circuits, unlike you which is also "circuits", but different in that we are "alive", have a soul, capable of emotions, love and hate, etc.
We call it Quantum and artificial because we want to lend more credibility to the notion or hope it will surpass some human expectation of better than or evolving upwards beyond us one day.
originally posted by: CJCrawley
a reply to: ColeYounger
Stephen Hawking keeps banging on about this but I just don't see the danger.
Wont the machines need to be, like, alive?
Explain how we can turn machines into living beings, Stephen.
it can have exponentially increasing processing power and memory. It's game over if not contained in time.
.why does it necessarily have to be "game over"?