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Loopi posted this in the What humans may look like in a million years. I didn't happen to think about that possibility before. I'm wondering how likely it is to happen, and if so, how soon.
Here's the article on Wikipedia: Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imagine that we create a massively intelligent computer, and that this very computer is able to create an improved version of itself. Then the new one creates another new computer a hundred times more powerful than it. It continues that way until those computer's AI are a billion times more powerful than our brain could possibly be (perhaps it never stops, you tell me!).
What happens then? We, mortals couldn't figure out a mere 0.0001% of what that freaking awesome, beyond imagination computer could possibly come up with. I doubt they'll want to keep us around.
That's kind of mind blowing.
Here's the article on Wikipedia: Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The technological singularity is the theoretical emergence of superintelligence through technological means. Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the technological singularity is seen as an occurrence beyond which events cannot be predicted.
Proponents of the singularity typically postulate an "intelligence explosion", where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human.
Imagine that we create a massively intelligent computer, and that this very computer is able to create an improved version of itself. Then the new one creates another new computer a hundred times more powerful than it. It continues that way until those computer's AI are a billion times more powerful than our brain could possibly be (perhaps it never stops, you tell me!).
What happens then? We, mortals couldn't figure out a mere 0.0001% of what that freaking awesome, beyond imagination computer could possibly come up with. I doubt they'll want to keep us around.
That's kind of mind blowing.