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Do you believe the Singularity is Near?

Posted by ptucker on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 4:05pm
No, it's all nonsense.
23% (14 votes)
Yes, I'm rapidly evolving at this very moment.
40% (25 votes)
Maybe, I think I'll know the nanobots when I see them.
37% (23 votes)
Total votes: 62

Comments

AI Sentience? Yep. AI intentions? Who knows.

Submitted by David H. Rosen on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 2:11pm.

Back in June, there was a great panel discussion at the World Science Festival on this topic. In addition to a couple of the actors from Battlestar, there were three scientists who could agree on just two issues: 1) AI will achieve sentience in the near future, and 2) its intentions at that point can't be predicted. Here's a link to some of the coverage...be sure to check out the video showing an AI-enabled robot learning what its shape is as it flails its limbs about. Cute, scary and definitely a glimpse of the future.

http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/mr_roboto_meets_battlestar_gal...

Man-Machine Singularity is coming first!

Submitted by Amoeba12 on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 7:40am.

I think that this "machine" singularity has been given too much attention, when organizations that co-ordinate the efforts of people, machines and computer behaves as a sentient, autonomous, self perpetuating, fault tolerant organism.

There should be more investigation sentient behavior of organization, because I believe the man-machine singularity will occur long before the "machine" singularity.

"Fortes fortuna adiuvat" "Fortune favors the bold"