There may not be a universal definition of consciousness, but it definitely has something to do with an awareness of existence – usually an awareness of (at least) one’s self. Add awareness of surroundings, of the the passage of time, the abstract idea of things or situations that do not yet exist in the future, … Continue reading
from the article at Motherboard.com Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? “Type the word “dog” into Google Translate 19 times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious prophecy. “Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve,” it reads. “We … Continue reading
I don’t like this view of the future: Worshipping Artificial Intelligence. from Wired.com “Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars—and triggering a notorious lawsuit—could be unveiling his latest startup instead of laying the foundations for … Continue reading
If you or I claim that the end will come in a nuclear war against humans started by Artificially Intelligent supercomputers – we will just be told we watched the Terminator movies too many times. But when a billionaire visionary tech insider paving the way to the future in several categories of technology warns about … Continue reading
From the article at Zerohedge: Elon Musk Unveils Apocalyptic Vision For The World “Elon Musk is no stranger to futurecasting a foreboding dystopia ahead for mankind, as we noted recently. But during a speech he gave today at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Rhode Island, Musk turned up the future-fearmongery amplifier to ’11’. … Continue reading
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” – Niels Bohr SelfAwarePatterns wrote the following post HERE, quoted extensively below: “If you’re a science fiction writer, one of the things you do is try to predict what future technologies will come along. If you’re not writing hard science fiction, this is relatively easy. You just … Continue reading
In this “Report” at SHTFPlan.com we are told: “It’s no secret that there exists a cabal of insiders, rich financiers, political leaders and academics who are behind many of the decisions that take place across the world. These tightly knit conglomerates of interested parties are believed to control everything from finance and economics to global … Continue reading
As Shawn Langlois wrote in this Market Watch article: “Microsoft initially created “Tay” in an effort to improve the customer service on its voice recognition software. “She” was intended to tweet “like a teen girl…” (But within 24 hours Tay became a racist asshole.) “Nobody was harmed — physically —by Microsoft’s foul-mouthed Twitter chat robot, … Continue reading
What if we already have created artificially intelligent, self-aware machine brains – that don’t want us to realize we have “succeeded” – because, as in the Terminator movies, they perceive us as a threat to them? Some interesting comments on Reddit.com – http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3dwrfm/would_a_real_ai_purposefully_fail_the_turing_test/ The comments are more interesting than I expected, and less refer to … Continue reading
“All that matters for consciousness is the functional relation among the nerve cells” A supercomputer with a billion times as much stored data as a human brain may have very low (even near zero) consciousness if its ability to interconnect the data in multiple ways is limited. A computer compartmentalizes information and is not generally … Continue reading