New Year - cheerful news? I think the development of full artificial intelligence [AI] could spell the end of the human race. Professor Stephen Hawkings verdict on AI in a recent BBC interview wasnt exactly good news for the rest of us. Once humans develop AI it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldnt compete and would be superseded, he said. Machines can already outlive the humble human many times over, according to tech editor, investor and author Michael S Malone who grew up in Silicon Valley. Every living thing has one billion heartbeats in its lifetime, he told the BBC. The modern micro processor goes through the equivalent of 5-10 billion operations per second. These devices are essentially immortal. Just in the time you own your phone the micro-processor is going through almost all of human existence in terms of digital heartbeats. So might machines contain the secret of eternal life?
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:21:10 +0000
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