Regretting The Singularity
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"The Singularity" is a term used by futurists to refer to the point where machine intelligence will start to outpace that of humans. AIs will design the next generation of AIs with increasing rapidity, gaining capabilities that we humans may not be able to comprehend (or control).
The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new super-intelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030.
One thought on this explosion of machine intelligence is that it may become possible to copy or download a human mind from its organic form into a machine body. It might signal the arrival of true immortality (as long as the machine bodies are kept in good repair?!) -- but might it also signal the end of the organic human race. Eventually as more people download into machines, there would be fewer people having babies -- unless machine people can find a way to reproduce, we might reach a point where there are no new children or personalities coming into existence.
Might those machine-humans come to regret leaving their organic bodies? Might they miss how they looked in human form (assuming machine bodies don't need to "look human"). Perhaps miss the wind in their hair, the warmth of sunlight on their face. Will they look at images of themselves when they were truly "human" and regret the decision to download? Will machine-humans be subject to melancholy and depression?
Such were the thoughts going through my mind when I thought to create this "doodle".
Search for "highland belle" to find the related images...
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The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new super-intelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030.
One thought on this explosion of machine intelligence is that it may become possible to copy or download a human mind from its organic form into a machine body. It might signal the arrival of true immortality (as long as the machine bodies are kept in good repair?!) -- but might it also signal the end of the organic human race. Eventually as more people download into machines, there would be fewer people having babies -- unless machine people can find a way to reproduce, we might reach a point where there are no new children or personalities coming into existence.
Might those machine-humans come to regret leaving their organic bodies? Might they miss how they looked in human form (assuming machine bodies don't need to "look human"). Perhaps miss the wind in their hair, the warmth of sunlight on their face. Will they look at images of themselves when they were truly "human" and regret the decision to download? Will machine-humans be subject to melancholy and depression?
Such were the thoughts going through my mind when I thought to create this "doodle".
Search for "highland belle" to find the related images...
(shortcut link: https://www.jigidi.com/search.php?q=highland+belle+dgcarlin )
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