Technological singularity, a grandiose dream

A would-be glorious achievement for its proponents, but an idea eliciting second thoughts from the sceptic

By Fritz Dufour
June 8, 2017

It has been suggested that technological singularity will be here by the year 2030 or by the year 2045 or roughly only 75 years after the start of the information revolution. Let’s suppose it will take 100 more years for the idea to be widely accepted and implemented, and another century for machines to be able to make other self-reliant machines. First and foremost, machines cannot and will not pop up spontaneously. Mankind, as we know it today, would have to be the driving force behind such an endeavor. But will we easily make the switch from our current state to a robot-driven community and, thus, voluntarily cease to exist as a stand-alone species?It has been suggested that technological singularity will be here by the year 2030 or by the year 2045 or roughly only 75 years after the start of the information revolution. Let’s suppose it will take 100 more years for the idea to be widely accepted and implemented, and another century for machines to be able to make other self-reliant machines. First and foremost, machines cannot and will not pop up spontaneously. Mankind, as we know it today, would have to be the driving force behind such an endeavor. But will we easily make the switch from our current state to a robot-driven community and, thus, voluntarily cease to exist as a stand-alone species? Read more.....

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