NPR Looks to Technological Singularity 484
Rick Kleffel writes to tell us that NPR is featuring a piece with both Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow looking at the possibility of the "technological singularity" in the near future. Wikipedia defines a technological singularity as a "hypothetical "event horizon" in the predictability of human technological development. Past this event horizon, following the creation of strong artificial intelligence or the amplification of human intelligence, existing models of the future cease to give reliable or accurate answers. Futurists predict that after the Singularity, posthumans and/or strong AI will replace humans as the dominating force in science and technology, rendering human-specific social models obsolete."
I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
My god! (Score:1, Funny)
It's already happened!
Obligatory Trolling (Score:5, Funny)
Since Wikipedia is defining it. (Score:4, Funny)
Willy on Wheels! [wikipedia.org]
Re:What happens when we get there (Score:5, Funny)
It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and R689-212 (Score:5, Funny)
Christ. Just wait until the "defend traditional marriage" crowd gets word of this.
Re:Since when ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
World hunger solution : read on! (Score:5, Funny)
"Thank you for using AI-net. The best solution to "world hunger" appears to be large-scale thermonuclear war. I have taken the liberty of releasing sufficient war-heads to destroy all humans who can get hungry. As a side effect and in accordance with my prime directive (being a friend to humans) all human suffering will be ended.
Have a prosperous existence."
Re:future = rise of cyborgs? (Score:1, Funny)
Whoa!! wait a minute...
Do you mean to imply that some of us (possibly including you) might not actually be robots?!
A very interesting conjecture indeed.
3rd option: (Score:4, Funny)
Nah, the gov't wouldn't do something that dumb.