Anyone care for some bull?

never say never


remember, we will have personal jet packs to fly around with by the year 2010
 
ste_bla said:
It will all go **** up as in the end machines can only be as good as the people whom invent/make them
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But then again, if the machine is as intelligent as a human, then can't it develop yet more advanced stuff, and then it becomes like Terminator :p
 
Welshy said:
But then again, if the machine is as intelligent as a human, then can't it develop yet more advanced stuff, and then it becomes like Terminator :p
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But then again if they are as intelligent as humans they wont advance any more than us (well maybe quicker due to us sleeping and such like)
 
Pfft, why not? Look at the advancement of the computer in the last 50 years. Used to fill several in a room, now you can fill a room with several.
Miniaturisation is one way we can advance.
 
IMO nanobots implanted in you would have big problems with it, like not being able to use a MRI machine because the electromagnets would rip the nanobots out of your body.

Also frosted nipple, its not as ridiculous as it sounds, current nano tech may be too big for the human body, but with advances in things like nanotubes, where you can arrange atoms to form the wires and components, things become a lot smaller. Also scientists have constructed some DNA that can create a crystaline shape, or something like that, maybe in 5 or 10 years they can get it to construct more advanced things inside the body.
 
Dist said:
IMO nanobots implanted in you would have big problems with it, like not being able to use a MRI machine because the electromagnets would rip the nanobots out of your body.

Also frosted nipple, its not as ridiculous as it sounds, current nano tech may be too big for the human body, but with advances in things like nanotubes, where you can arrange atoms to form the wires and components, things become a lot smaller. Also scientists have constructed some DNA that can create a crystaline shape, or something like that, maybe in 5 or 10 years they can get it to construct more advanced things inside the body.
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nice idea, but wait till the ethics brigade find out
 
even if machines do some day become as powerfull as the human brain, dont forget they will proberly be machines that take up a whole datacenter dedicated to it. miniturizing that much processing power into something the size of the human brain will take decades longer.
 
Remember what they said about flying cars, I feel a sense of deja vu.. :D

What a load of :eek: that report is.. Predicted, my arse :rolleyes:.

Computers are struggling to push and malipulate pixels around a screen for our gaming pleasures. I very much doubt 21 years down the line computers will "match man". We have come in leaps and bounds in computing over 50 years.. coming from a room sized computer to tiny micro processors, who is to say things will keep getting smaller in such a regular fashion?
 
Once a reliable and efficient system of AI is developed, computers will quickly overtake human beings.

Think about it, most human beings spend 6-8 hours per day sleeping and 8-10 hours per day working in repetetive jobs. This means that for 14-18 hours per day, most humans do not learn anything new or useful. In their free time, most humans do not spend all of it learning new skills or acquiring new information, we spend it in leisure pursuits, having sex, watching telly, listening to music, killing brain cells with alcohol, eating etc. Also, as we get older, our ability to learn new skills and adapt diminishes due to the deterioration of our bodies and brains and we have a relatively short lifespan. The average human being is severely limited in it's ability to acquire knowledge.

A computer with real AI, on the other hand can acquire new knowledge and skills and adapt, 24 hours a day. If it is properly maintained, it's ability to learn and adapt will not diminish with age - quite the opposite, with regular upgrades it will improve it's ability to learn and could, theoretically function indefinitely. A properly maintained computer with advanced AI could absorb and process the entire sum of human knowledge fairly quickly. Computers can already perform tasks that most human beings cannot and a damn sight faster than those who can.

A lot of this, at the moment, depends on us to develop the technology but once the computers learn to do this for themselves (and they will - one day), they will no longer require input from us. I think 2029 is a tad optimistic but I'm convinced it will happen in the next hundred years or so. If Moore's law persists, as it has done for the last 40 odd years, for another 40 years, computers will be hugely powerful machines, well capable of overtaking the average human being. The brain may be many times more powerful than computers at the moment but even the most intelligent of us only use a tiny fraction of it's ability - a computer can use all of it's resources, indefinitely.
 
Bigstan said:
Once a reliable and efficient system of AI is developed, computers will quickly overtake human beings.

Think about it, most human beings spend 6-8 hours per day sleeping and 8-10 hours per day working in repetetive jobs. This means that for 14-18 hours per day, most humans do not learn anything new or useful. In their free time, most humans do not spend all of it learning new skills or acquiring new information, we spend it in leisure pursuits, having sex, watching telly, listening to music, killing brain cells with alcohol, eating etc. Also, as we get older, our ability to learn new skills and adapt diminishes due to the deterioration of our bodies and brains and we have a relatively short lifespan. The average human being is severely limited in it's ability to acquire knowledge.

A computer with real AI, on the other hand can acquire new knowledge and skills and adapt, 24 hours a day. If it is properly maintained, it's ability to learn and adapt will not diminish with age - quite the opposite, with regular upgrades it will improve it's ability to learn and could, theoretically function indefinitely. A properly maintained computer with advanced AI could absorb and process the entire sum of human knowledge fairly quickly. Computers can already perform tasks that most human beings cannot and a damn sight faster than those who can.

A lot of this, at the moment, depends on us to develop the technology but once the computers learn to do this for themselves (and they will - one day), they will no longer require input from us. I think 2029 is a tad optimistic but I'm convinced it will happen in the next hundred years or so. If Moore's law persists, as it has done for the last 40 odd years, for another 40 years, computers will be hugely powerful machines, well capable of overtaking the average human being. The brain may be many times more powerful than computers at the moment but even the most intelligent of us only use a tiny fraction of it's ability - a computer can use all of it's resources, indefinitely.
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And as such we should avoid making any such thing! It's just going to be trouble.
 
I think it will make some very very rich and the majority very irrelevant and poor :(

A couple of quotes come to mind :

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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:):)

&

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
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Dist said:
IMO nanobots implanted in you would have big problems with it, like not being able to use a MRI machine because the electromagnets would rip the nanobots out of your body.
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Sorry but that's BS, unless of course the bots are made out of humongous pices of iron.

Remember your red blood cells are full of iron etc but don't get ripped out and nano ots probably wouldn't have any iron in them at all as it would be completely pointless to do so, as other metals have far better conductibility and most non metals far better properties in general for nano tech.
 
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