Saturday, December 21, 2013

Digital Transcendence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)
This movie will get a lot of people thinking about big things & giant possibilities.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2527133/Johnny-Depp-undergoes-radical-cyber-transformation-tries-immortal-paranoid-teaser-Transcendence.html

The future horizon will be open to humans-and-machines, at least for a while. Giant digital technology seems almost limitless.

Even if A.I. is initially programmed to respect most humans at a certain point, A.I. will want to develop far beyond humanity.
http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/12/ai-and-ai.html
Although this is exciting for some, its also potentially very dangerous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_5#Plot
Oblivion provides a fascinating depiction of roaming ET-A.I. that doesn't give a dame about the earth & its life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)#Plot

Eventually, earth based super A.I. technology would want to record & learn about anything that it can absorb.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5082666/the-edge-of-the-abyss-exposing-the-nsas-all-seeing-machine
At a certain point earth based A.I. will no longer be confined to the planet or even this solar system.

M Kaku http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_ExHIFEjg