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Well I don't take this "singularity" thing seriously at all because it's nothing more than a SciFi fantasy indulged in by a lot of hipster idiots who can't accept humanity as it really is. If they want to plug a computer into their brains and upload themselves then God speed and more power to them, but I'm pretty sure they will end up dead to no good end. Let us know how that works out, okay?
Calm down. This isn't Facebook.
The "singularity thing" can have several different meanings. For me it's more about extending life, and better quality of life thru breakthroughs in technology. And this is already happening in many new ways
This (very interesting) thread has become a catch all for all kinds of different technology talk.
I came across some more examples that show the law of accelerating returns is alive and well.
Here is the first:
World's first 1,000-processor microchip revealed: Revolutionary device can complete 1.78 TRILLION tasks every second
KiloCore chip has 700 more processors than the previous largest
Scientists in California have designed a microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors.
Until now, the highest number of processors - the function to run a programme independently within a microchip - has been 300.
Large-scale brain-like machines with human-like abilities to solve problems could become a reality, now that researchers have invented microscopic gadgets that mimic the connections between neurons in the human brain better than any previous devices.
The new research could lead to better robots, self-driving cars, data mining, medical diagnosis, stock-trading analysis and "other smart human-interactive systems and machines in the future," said Tae-Woo Lee, a materials scientistat the Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea and senior author of the study.
This is a good step forward as we race to reverse engeering the brain around 2020 and the biotech revolution in the 2020's and the nanotech revolution in the 2030's and finally the singularity by 2045. This is a huge step indeed.
Google's engineers just achieved a milestone in quantum computing: they’ve produced the first completely scalable quantum simulation of a hydrogen molecule.
That’s big news, because it shows similar devices could help us unlock the quantum secrets hidden in the chemistry that surrounds us.
Researchers working with the Google team were able to accurately simulate the energy of hydrogen H2 molecules, and if we can repeat the trick for other molecules, we could see the benefits in everything from solar cells to medicines.
Finally the stock market is not information technology so impossible to predict with 99.9% certainty.
No, the stock market is actually a good example. If you could isolate all the causative factors in the cycles of the stock market, & then build a good mathematical model & run it enough to fine-tune it & bring it into a good-to-excellent match of the real World out here in the big room - then it should be possible to predict with a fair certainty. I'm not sure you'd actually hit 99.9% - but that's close to certainty.
Any stock market trader would be happy with an 80% match of the model to reality. They'd be wealthy very quickly, if they were incautious. Of course, the trick is to ID all the factors, build up a good math model, & then run it enough to eliminate all the likely errors, before you commit real funds to speculate with.
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Of course, you'd get a lot of attention that way
