So, what happens when one of these implants in your brain — running Windows, of course — gets a BSOD? Oh, the humanity!
Machines ‘to match man by 2029’
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.
The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.
“It’s really part of our civilisation,” Mr Kurzweil explained.
“But that’s not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us.”
On a vaguely related topic, here’s a different DIY project.
Actually new discoveries about how the brain works has pushed the number of bits in the brain to 10^37 rather than 10^18 as many used to believe. Machine might still eventually catch up but it pushes it back a few hundred years.
Just imagine the next great Bush being able to brainwash you through mandatory implants? Then we would never see documentaries like Why We Fight. It’s a dictators wet dream… no more criticism and people do as they’re told.
The depth of human intelligence is not yet understood so good luck to this guy and his prediction but to be honest I take his statement as an insult to my intelligence.
“Machines to Match Man by 2029.”
Machines to understand women maybe by 2050.
Oh I don’t know, I am skeptical as well. However, I think some things will proceed faster than anyone expects. In 20 years I expect there will be a full blown movement against people who still manually drive their cars. At the same time, I see how little advance there has been in software like… business processes… In the last 30 years. Sure there as been a lot of integration development, but I don’t think there is a computer anywhere that people trust to run a company day to day.
Software seems to advance to a well defined state, like the general ledger for a company or driving a car, or clever gui’s that make it easier for people to browse the web, but then any advancement seems to stop.
It seems “being human” is a painfully ill defined area and the only way a computer could be a human is if it were to somehow live as one. But then it would limited in the same sorts of way a human is.
So I think, our civilization will barely be recognizable in a hundred years with androids working and living as humans do, with perhaps some post human qualities, but ultimately our civilization will still be a human one.
On the other hand “bots” in “cyberspace” (whatever that ends up being, it is not second life for certain) living a distinctly post human existance will probably happen in the next 20 years. I just doubt it will exist as much more than a toy.
I think ultimately what Kurzweil is trying to accomplish is sell a lot of books, and as I understand he has been reasonably successful at that. Sort of a latter day L Ron Hubbard if you will. Kurzweil is selling the nerd rapture.
I’ve Changed My Mind
By Alex Romonksy
http://tinyurl.com/247ln2
Contains a nice brief treatises on neurohacking.
Unless, there is a fundamental shift in the way a computer mimics human thought, I can’t see how a computer will even be the equal of a human. Mathematically speaking, the are problems are are provably unsolvable through algorithm, e.g. the so called “unsolvable word problem.” Therefore, any machine that mimics human intelligence through algorithm is aways going to be limited. There have been some seriously anti-intuitive results in Group Theory in the last twenty years that call into question the unbounded power of the algorithmic process. It’s not that the algorithms don’t exists to solve these problems. It has been proved that no algorithm as we understand them can ever solve these problems.
And I for one welcome our Robot Overlords..
I don’t see it happening for an extremely long time, if ever, at least from a hardware implementation perspective. It seems that the more we learn about our “brain,” the more our information on our “mind” becomes much more elusive.
However, if we were to grow an organic-synthetic brain in a petri dish, we might accomplish the same thing (AI) without truly understanding what we were doing. Like my mother browsing the internet, all she knows is that she clicks on a link and a new page shows up. She has no clue what is going on at the OS level. I suspect that’s how we’ll eventually develop AI.
“So, what happens when one of these implants in your brain — running Windows, of course — gets a BSOD?”
Reformat HDD and do a Clean install. Never do an upgrade, that always hoses you. But make sure you back up first. Don’t want to loose any of those important files or the P0r^ Collection.
My IPOD is smarter than some members of Congress already!!!
The key here is that computers to this point in date only mimic human behavior. In order for a computer to learn, it would have to be able to process large amount of information and environmental variables within a categorized construct based on a concrete model of organization. Good luck…
Computers will surpass humans when the computer seeks out and solve problems without being told to do so.
All computers today need some kind of input from humans in order to do tasks.
Once humans design a chess systems like Deep Blue, the system’s performance is close to mimicking independent thought.
What would be interesting is to see the kind of computer system a computer would design.
SAME year,
as that asteroid is going to pass, and 6 years later, MAY COME BACK AND HIT??
I see more of a math co-processor first. Just an upgrade to go with you eyes and ears. You’ll still need to know how to do math.
I’m still waiting for the HAL9000.
“I can’t do that Dave.”
I remember reading this guy’s book Age of Spiritual Machines, a take on what might happen in the next ten decades or so. For instance, (sprinkle some salt) he bravely speculates that by 2100 we may all become sentient shape shifting clouds of (immortal) robo-neurons.
Uh, okay, but his writing also had the intriguing question of whether downloading the entire contents of a person’s mind and memory and storing it would somehow be able to preserve the actual essence of that individual, and then allow it to be rejuvenated in some kind of extra-corporeal ‘quantum’ apparatus.
Seems to me it’s also quite possible that such a thing could turn out to be like a movie; the scene is recorded, but the scene itself is long gone.
#18: I’ve copyrighted my mind, so don’t you even THINK about downloading it. I’ll have the RIAA down on you so fast for listening to the songs in my head without paying for them…
19 – Yeah, the legal aspect! Could be another R.K. future-looking book on it, a whole new meaning to the ‘intellectual property’ tango.
I’m looking forward to having a Jetsons-type motor maid, though.
I’m with # 9 –
If we do anything close..it won’t be on purpose.
Or whatever was originally intended..
since I work enterprise helpdesk for a major international company, I can attest that people are already losing the uphill battle…
holy crap theres some real morans out there