Singularity is Near? or Isnt Near?
 

I am with the former, not the latter...

Singularity is Near...my subjective opinion of course:)

Skynet.

Nose bleed. *faints*

But seriously, capitalism is preventing the development of any super advance technologies. We now live in a time where economic sense defeats pure engineering. Humanity in the past few decades have decided to invest on eye candy technologies rather than challenging true technological limitations.

I don't think it's impossible, but it won't be anytime soon.

Large Hadron Collider.

true, but just as trying to fight a tidal wave, you eventually have to capitulate, nature will become too strong. with Moore's law in play on so many levels in so many industries, day to day human beings will find it that more much difficult to keep up.

one day we will wake up, and the machines will be doing something, and they will either be too busy, or not care to tell us what they are doing...Marvin Minsky said something along those lines. and with the idea that Watson beat two jeopardy players in 2011, kinda tells me we are on a real path for some real profound change, whatever it may be. but way I follow history, looks we could very well be tadpole like creatures, and next frontier is space. look at all the cool stuff Peter Diamandis is doing, Elon Musk, etc...

stuff is changing quick, folks bess pay some attention lol:)

edit: 2050'ish is the expected date, I'm with Kurzweil...but bet things get very weird before then haha. I think there is a lot of good stuff happening, it's not doomsday, just change...it's called a Paradigm Shift...

Bread and circuses. Haven't seen much in the world breaking advances sideline lately.

Go FOX (*puke*)

putting a time or trying to estimate a time for it to occur is an absurd notion. Not only do we have extraordinary lepas and bounds to make before its even a possiblity, but we have to identify and then replicate parts of our psyche which have eluded definition for as long as history has been recorded. When artificial intelligence has INTENTION, then, and only then, will singularity even be a possibility. and of course, for it to have intentions it must have self awareness and other attributes which we struggle to recreate and define.

I always go back to this quote by Albert Bartlett: "the greatest shortcoming of the human race, is its inability to understand the exponential function." so yes, putting a time or trying to estimate is pretty absurd...it can take forever, or it can take no time at all. but one thing is for sure, we have come a long way In a very short time, so progress is accelerating. my 8 year old daughter and 11 year old boy both have a 1980's supercomputer in thier pocket, that is pretty profound if you ask me...we build the computers of tomorrow, with the computers of today, and that progress does not stop. just my opinion that's all. observation:)

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I look forward to having one of these to bolt my brain bucket into in a few decades.

what, and screw up a perfectly good robot? jerk.