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world will get weirder, the end of the human era
Science fiction writer and cultural theorist, Damien
Broderick took us into the unimaginable future. Are we ready
to live in science fiction? Do we have any say in it?
Broderick greeted the audience with "good morning fellow
humans". Arguing that just as it was intolerable to address
only men in the audience 40 years ago, in another 40 years it may
be just as offensive to restrict salutations to the human beings
in the audience. A current human lifetime from now, 'robots minds'
will join any gatherings. By 2080, Broderick believes that the distinction
between human and machine consciousness could not possibly persist.
Citing predictions that human level artificial intelligence is likely
within a few decades, Broderick referred to a great dislocation
which he calls The Spike. He argues that this century, society can
expect a singularity, a Spike in the upward soaring graph of historical
change, a wall or horizon of prediction beyond which we cannot reliably
see. Contributing to that horizon will be major scientific breakthroughs
perhaps leading to rejuvenation and extreme longevity; molecular
or nano technology, that is the ability to construct things from
the atom scale up; artificial intelligence and possibly the ability
to upload or machine augment human brains. The pace of technological
change has been rapid and is escalating towards developments such
as artificial intelligence and nanotechnology.
A spiking world
He argues that intelligence will spike, that computing power drives
the Spike and describes the characteristics of a Spiking world and
the possibility of reaching it by 2030.
File: broderick.mp3 Duration: 18:48 Size: 1.4MB
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