Pfft. There’s an app for that.
Indeed. I don’t understand why everyone is so gaga about becoming the Borg, or a sentient grey goo, or something else bizarre or unpleasant. To name just one thing, they can take my sense of humor away from me when they pry it from my cold dead locked jaws.
Not for the Android. At least not for the ones other than **furt’s **smiling wife.
To be clear, I don’t claim that computer technology specifically is inherently exponential, but that technology in general is. Any given field of technology eventually gets about as good as it’ll ever get, but then new fields of technology emerge to be the cutting edge of development.
Personally, I think that when we do get strong AI (it’ll happen eventually; it’s just when it’ll happen that’s up for guessing), it’ll be from Google or something like it just gradually getting smarter and smarter until eventually we can’t move the goalposts far enough back to exclude it.
Yes, but there is an assumption there. That there are a very large number of “fields” of technology to become the new front runner. And not only that, but the newest front runner somehow bootstraps the others even further along and/or itself for that matter.
Here is a simple, uncute, example. Those of us of a certain age have noted that for students today, if it isn’t on the web it doesn’t exist. Not everything has been digitized yet. We are frequently standing up in conferences and pointing out to students and young faculty that their wonderful new idea got tried out 25 years ago.
The danger of your statement is that if you think everything is on the web you won’t look off it, and your search will be overly constrained.
Things like this:http://oyc.yale.edu/
I think are very important. But I certainly take your point that not everything has made it to the web. However, in general most of human knowledge can be accessed on the web, in the sense of a universal encyclopedia.
You’re speaking about emotions, which are essentially just electro-chemical reactions in our brain.
The qualia associated with said reactions are more than that.
Subjective experience is difficult, but I think at some point in the future we’ll have good enough VR that we won’t be able to tell the difference between it and reality.
The pop-up ads will be a dead giveaway.
I would maintain that anything that inherently can’t be put online (like how it feels to fall in love, or whatever) isn’t “knowledge” to begin with, or at least not part of “human knowledge”.
Cite?