Why hasn't the Singularity gone mainstream (yet?) (power, electric, advance)

[NightBazaar]

Originally Posted by Josseppie

Computers will let you know all that by 2029.

They might say, "Sorry... that... does... not... compute."

[plwhit]

Originally Posted by Josseppie

Computers will let you know all that by 2029.

More pie-in-the-sky predictions, you and your 2029/2030 prophecies are head and shoulders funnier than anything posted in the Joke of the Week forum...

[Josseppie]

Originally Posted by plwhit

More pie-in-the-sky predictions, you and your 2029/2030 prophecies are head and shoulders funnier than anything posted in the Joke of the Week forum...

I know they can sound that way but just like we went from a main frame computer in the 1970's to Google Glass today they will happen.

[Josseppie]

This is a interesting editorial in the Washington Post about what passing the Turing test means. Since computers advance exponentially this will be sooner rather then later.


Now that a computer has passed the Turing Test — which uses a version of the famous imitation game outlined by computing legend Alan Turing in the 1950s to test whether or not a computer can “think” — it will be off to the races to conquer the next frontiers for artificial intelligence. Get ready for computers that experience emotions, computers that learn from their mistakes, and computers that possess all five human senses. If a computer were capable of all of these feats, let’s face it, we would be forced to concede that machines had developed a form of consciousness.

The link: Why you should care that a chatbot just impersonated a 13-year-old boy

[plwhit]

I wonder when some people will start addressing the OP instead of using this thread as a free-for-all crystal ball fantasy announcer...

Why hasn't the Singularity gone mainstream (yet?)

[Josseppie]

Another question I get asked a lot is will everyone be able to afford increased technology as we reach the singularity. So when I saw this article on that very topic I thought I would post it.

This is from Serious Wonder:


I get that many believe that the amazing technologies of tomorrow will only be available to the rich and powerful, while the poor and working class suffer with nothing, but what I can’t comprehend anymore is why they believe that when they’re shown, first hand, the exact contrary! Yes, their strongest arguments lie on the more recent tech advancements which, granted, are quite expensive at the moment – i.e. Google Glass – but even their strongest arguments are weak in nature.

While a cliché argument in many circles (it’s only a cliché because it works), a great example of why the poor and working class are truly the ones who benefit most from technological revolutions would be the computer. The first ever electronic general-purpose computer was the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), built in 1946, with a cost of almost $500,000. In today’s terms, that would’ve been equivalent to around $6 million. It weighed over 25 tons and took up approximately 680 square feet. Memory storage wise, while it didn’t have any central memory, it used a series of 20 accumulators, which acted as storage devices, with each accumulator storing one signed 10-digit decimal number.

The link: SERIOUS WONDER | The Future of Technology Isn't Just a Rich Man's Game - SERIOUS WONDER

[plwhit]

This serious wonder website should read their source articles instead of just the headlines...

For example, they say 3D printers are printing food (shades of STNG). But when one goes to the website they got the information from that website states:

There are only six foods available as smoothfoods: Cauliflower, peas, chicken, pork, potatoes and pasta. The food is cooked, pureed, and strained, then mixed with a secret texturizer and "printed" into familiar food shapes. Sandra Forstner, the project manager at Biozoon, assured the food blog Munchies that the 3D-printed food tastes just like normal food.

So this "printed food" is just normal food that has been cooked, pureed, and strained, then mixed with a secret texturizer and then printed...

Does this mean we now have printed GM foods?

Another stretch of the imagination is when they state (again, based on another websites article)

Soon, however, 3-D printers may be spitting out something far more complex, and controversial: human organs.

Seems this entire thread is based on "maybe" "possibly" "research indicates" "sometime soon"

Not to mention 3D printers have their own threads in this forum, but alas once again some posters are oblivious to the OP:

Why hasn't the Singularity gone mainstream

[Josseppie]

Actually the point of the article is that all technology will get cheaper and one of the questions I have been asked over and over is sure the singularity sounds great but will it be affordable for everyone or just the rich.

[Michigantown]

Originally Posted by plwhit

I wonder when some people will start addressing the OP instead of using this thread as a free-for-all crystal ball fantasy announcer...

Why hasn't the Singularity gone mainstream (yet?)

Because people don't think ahead. Already answered 2 years ago.

[Josseppie]

Computers teaching computers is one of the things we will need for the singularity to occur by 2030. This is one of the first examples of this doing that.

This is from Space Daily:

Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have created the first fully automated computer program that teaches everything there is to know about any visual concept.

Called Learning Everything about Anything, or LEVAN, the program searches millions of books and images on the Web to learn all possible variations of a concept, then displays the results to users as a comprehensive, browsable list of images, helping them explore and understand topics quickly in great detail.

The link: New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything