Pretty neat article about the future of robots, AI and alien visitors. Are humans going to be robots in the far future in order to become immortal and avoid the obvious limitations of our flesh bodies?
What about aliens ? If a civilization is advanced enough to travel insane distances through space, do these guys have wimpy flesh bodies like us, or are they immortal robots that wend beyond the flesh-and-blood form?
What about aliens ? If a civilization is advanced enough to travel insane distances through space, do these guys have wimpy flesh bodies like us, or are they immortal robots that wend beyond the flesh-and-blood form?
Full article: http://www.space.com/11090-aliens-attack-visitors-earth-robots.htmlIn civilizations advanced enough to travel between the stars, it is quite likely that machines have supplanted their biological creators, some scientists argue. Automatons — unlike animals — could withstand the hazards to living tissue and the strain on social fabrics posed by a long interstellar voyage.
Scientists have long projected that technology will eventually reach the point where our brain-based consciousnesses can be transferred to synthetic media, and Dyer sees this as the third path to machine supremacy.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has famously promoted the idea of such a man-machine convergence as the "singularity" and he has foretold 2045 as the year in which it happens.
"If you have a civilization that’s thousands, millions, or even billions of years older than us, it will have gone through cultural evolution and I think the likelihood is very good that they won't be like us, and will be AIs," Dick said.