Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent said engineer Ray Kurzweil.



Let's be real here Ray - we both know that as soon as we figure out how to link the human mind to a machine, 5 minutes later someone else will figure out how to end viagra spam right into our central nervous system. Then SCO will try to sue everyone for copyright infringement on the source code for human thought, claiming that they invented it first.

Weaver95: Let's be real here Ray - we both know that as soon as we figure out how to link the human mind to a machine, 5 minutes later someone else will figure out how to end viagra spam right into our central nervous system. Then SCO Microsoft will try to sue everyone for copyright infringement on the source code for human thought, claiming that they invented it first.

FTFY.

Kurzweil has failed to impress me for some time now. I've read a couple of his earlier books and think he excels at pulling things out of his arse.

Does that mean by then even the machines will submit Fark headlines that end in "...Sarah Connor"?

given the intelligence of the average human, i'm not sure this will be that big of a deal

"In the year 2525....."

Weaver95: Let's be real here Ray - we both know that as soon as we figure out how to link the human mind to a machine, 5 minutes later someone else will figure out how to end viagra spam right into our central nervous system.

Within five minutes of linking a human mind to a computer, someone will have written a virus or rootkit that would infect our central nervous system.

But will they like cats?

Didn't they say we would have human-level artificial intelligence by the year 2000 over forty years ago? Same journalistic crap, different year. Will be the same story in 2040.

Hans Moravec's work on this topic is

...less full of its own bullcrap/branding
...more interesting, engaging, and entertaining (particularly in its exploration of the moral implications presented by digitization)
...every bit as inaccurate

/bummer

Borg nanites, not terminators

/morons
//geek thread
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DulceEtDecorumEst: You know who else wanted to make machines that killed people?

Frank Stalone?

DulceEtDecorumEst: You know who else wanted to make machines that killed people?



Yeah, this guy!

Wabbajack: Didn't they say we would have human-level artificial intelligence by the year 2000 over forty years ago? Same journalistic crap, different year. Will be the same story in 2040.



Where's the flying car you promised my dad?

Let's all hope they all look like this.

Raymond Kurzweil FTW

Sex-bots!

Do you know who Goblox is?! I will tell you who Goblox is. In the year 9595, a race of deformed turkey was genetically developed by chicken scientists as revenge against his bird brother. These turkeys would exit the womb doused in gravy; gravy filled with the giblets…from a monkey. The French craved it, and, as a result, turkey became the only food source for France, which is now called RoboFrance 29. I was later killed by the chickens! So, of course, you can see why I'm angry at those chickens.

The emporers new mind. They have to invent artificial stupidity first.

Have projections for future technological advances ever been accurate for time periods more than a few years?

Psst- flying cars by 2040. Pass it on.

If I recall correctly, back in 1970 they wired a chimp's brain with electrodes, plugged him into a computer, and played him like a live puppet.

Do that with living humans and you've got mindless robots which will obey yout every command.

Actually it would be a lot simpler to wire electrodes to the pleasure centers of the brain, then give the slave subject a ZAP! whenever they obey a command.

Judging by the addictiveness of crack cocaine, you could just about get them to do anything you want.

Is not impressed.

I believe that 2029 is the year from which Gov Schwarze-something was sent back to protect John Conner in T2

Doran: I bow to your faster GIS-jitsu

HK-47 for US President -- 2032

Ray Kurzweil is hack. He can somehow take very amazing ideas and turn them into stupid in seconds flat. It sucks for the rest of us that his publishers are good with media and have made him the spokesperson for the technological singularity. =(

On the other hand, Dresden Codak rules.

Even if we could, would we want to do so?

Wabbajack: Didn't they say we would have human-level artificial intelligence by the year 2000 over forty years ago? Same journalistic crap, different year. Will be the same story in 2040.

More like 2001.

olddinosaur: If I recall correctly, back in 1970 they wired a chimp's brain with electrodes, plugged him into a computer, and played him like a live puppet.

Do that with living humans and you've got mindless robots which will obey yout every command.

Actually it would be a lot simpler to wire electrodes to the pleasure centers of the brain, then give the slave subject a ZAP! whenever they obey a command.

Judging by the addictiveness of crack cocaine, you could just about get them to do anything you want.

I want to test this so bad, just so long as I'm not the test subject. I guess we know what to do with POWs in future wars now.

Oh, look. An article on The Singularity.

neocssck: Doran: I bow to your faster GIS-jitsu

And I actually went to IMDB first to see if I could grab the same picture. IMDB played hardball with my picture-copying, so I whipped over to Google. It's my friend. :)

dervish16108: HK-47 for US President -- 2032

Prediction: Landslide, meatbags.

DulceEtDecorumEst: You know who else wanted to make machines that killed people?

Hitler with his giant mechanical spiders?

/FTW

co-conspirator: I've read a couple of his earlier books and think he excels at pulling things out of his arse.

Don't discount the power of Kurzweil's arse. Predictions from The Age of Intelligent Machines

* Correctly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union (1991) as new technologies such as cellular phones and fax machines critically disempowered authoritarian governments by removing state control over the flow of information.

* Correctly predicted computers would beat the best human players by 1998, and most likely in that year. In fact, the event occurred in May of 1997 when chess World Champion Gary Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue.

* Correctly predicted the explosive growth of the Internet. Kurzweil's realization of its future potential was especially prescient given the technology's limitations at that time. He also stated that the Internet would explode not only in the number of users but in content as well, eventually granting users access "to international networks of libraries, data bases, and information services" (such as Wikipedia). Additionally, Kurzweil correctly foresaw that the preferred mode of Internet access would inevitably be through wireless systems, and he was also correct to estimate that the latter would become practical for widespread use in the early 21st century.

* Kurzweil also accurately predicted that many documents would exist solely on computers and on the Internet by the end of the 1990s, and that they would commonly be embedded with animations, sounds and videos that would prohibit their transference to paper format.

* Correctly predicted that cellular phones would grow in popularity while shrinking in size for the foreseeable future.

* Correctly predicted that the world's militaries would continually rely on more intelligent, computerized weapons. He also predicted remotely controlled military aircraft such as the Predator.

What a crock.

We're not even CLOSE to understanding the brain well enough to build third-party add-ons for it. We can't even consistently and safely surgically fix minor problems with the brain.

And artificially-intelligent machines? We don't have them. We may never have them. We have NO IDEA how to even begin to make them. They might never happen.

I get tired of Kurzweil and his ilk. They ignore the engineering realities of their "predictions".

Save that crap for the "Wired" magazine crowd, who think that owning an iPhone makes them "posthuman".

olddinosaur: Actually it would be a lot simpler to wire electrodes to the pleasure centers of the brain, then give the slave subject a ZAP! whenever they obey a command.

m2313: I want to test this so bad, just so long as I'm not the test subject. I guess we know what to do with POWs in future wars now.

I'm pretty sure this would work, and work well. I think the main reasons it's not being used right now are that A) we already know quite a bit about how to manipulate people into doing exactly what we want, using social pressure, money, and media B) the operations required to put electrodes and receivers in peoples' heads are expensive compared to doing the things in A.

But yeah, machine intelligence, like fusion power, is always 30 years in the future.

One thing I never understood about the whole Terminator series is why didn't Sarah Connor just change her damn name?

All of the Terminators that were sent back were looking for her. All she had to do was get a fake ID and start over as a waitress in Bumfark, Kansas. John could have gone by the name Blake or something, and she could have trained him in secret. Then, when he gets older and starts saving mankind, he never reveals his alias - I would think that would confuse the hell out of SkyNet.

Doran: Let's all hope they all look like this.

Or this

aspAddict: One thing I never understood about the whole Terminator series is why didn't Sarah Connor just change her damn name?

All of the Terminators that were sent back were looking for her. All she had to do was get a fake ID and start over as a waitress in Bumfark, Kansas. John could have gone by the name Blake or something, and she could have trained him in secret. Then, when he gets older and starts saving mankind, he never reveals his alias - I would think that would confuse the hell out of SkyNet.

Expect some knocks on your door soon.

Doran: Damn my Wiki fact checking for the T2 reference

thisispete: Doran: Let's all hope they all look like this.

Or this

*Bows* Sharon Valerii FTW.

I believe the Onion already scooped this one...


http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_we_giving_the

DulceEtDecorumEst: You know who else wanted to make machines that killed people?

Baxter Stockman?

OTA BENGA: Correctly predicted computers would beat the best human players by 1998, and most likely in that year. In fact, the event occurred in May of 1997 when chess World Champion Gary Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue.
/Deep Blue and it's programmers conspired and cheated to win against Kasporov

moeriscus: I believe the Onion already scooped this one...


http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_we_giving_the

Is the onion supposed to be funny orsomething? It's like, I know they're being silly and all, but there really aren't...jokes or anything.

Depending on the human, I'd say we reached human level intelligence with the invention of the etch-e-sketch.

Maybe so, but it will still be nothing like human intelligence. Because we're special. My mom told me so.