In fact, predictions offer glimpses of something truly amazing – the development of a human hybrid, a mind that thinks in artificial intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, spoke openly about this idea at the Exponential Finance Conference in New York. He predicts that humans will have hybrid brains able to connect to the cloud, just as with computers.
In this cloud, there will be thousands of computers which will update human intelligence. The larger the cloud, the more complicated the thinking. This will all be connected using DNA strands called Nanobots. Sounds like a Sci-Fi movie, doesn’t it?
Kurzweil says:
“Our hybrid thinking will be a combination of biological and non-biological thought processes.”
By the end of 2030, our thinking should be almost entirely non-biological and able to function much like an external hard drive – having the ability to backup information as with technology. It seems we keep pushing further the ability of the human mind.
Kurzweil believes one of the true characteristics of the being human is the ability to continually surpass knowledge.
“We will always transcend our limitations-it’s human nature.” says Kurzweil.
Kurzweil wasn’t 100% accurate in his future predictions, but he was close enough. In 1990, he predicted several things for the year 2009, including portable computers and eyeglasses with the built-in computer screen. He didn’t, however, hit the nail on the head with self-driven cars.
It was much later, this year, to be exact, that the idea touched the edge of mainstream technology. He was 86% accurate in his predictions, which is astonishing in itself.
No worries, there will probably not be a massive takeover by artificial intelligence. We have accounted for this long ago in other theories. For instance, fire provides a way to cook, but we have managed somehow to keep from burning everything down.
The same rules apply here. We have taken the necessary precautions to safeguard ourselves from these horrors.
However, we must still play it safe. Kurzweil reminds us:
“Technology is a double-edged sword. It has its promise and its peril.”
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This guy is such a clown! Perhaps I too should make preposterous predictions and get the attention I crave.
To the author, you are comparing apples to oranges when you say, that with regards to nano technology we have nothing to worry about because we created fire and have "managed not to burn everything down". Are you aware that fire cannot think on its own yet, it has been proven that artificial intelligence can adapt (think). According to Stephen Hawkings, "the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all." - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/49009-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html#sthash.nPTuPkt2.dpuf.
the hive, or planet earth giant usb.
Spirituality in the east speaks about individual consciousness, collective individual consciousness, universal consciousness, collective universal consciousness and lastly cosmic consciousness. Which means integration of Individual consciousness with the consciousness of all individuals.This to my mind will cover planet earth.Then integration of individuals collective consciousness with universal consciousness. Since there are innumerable universes, the next stage is integration of all universal or multiverse consciousnesses. And ultimately comes the cosmic consciousness.
The Rishis could visualise or may be achieve the cosmic consciousness through meditation or spiritual practices by working within. What they achieved was shared by them with others for their progress. this has long been lost by us. now the external (AI) will take the first step---usher collective consciousness. CALL IT PROGRESS OR REGRESSION. We are reinventing it by putting things upside down.