Technological Singularity by 2040

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You don't even need to wait. Time simply passes slower on the ISS. This actually has nothing to do with being in space though. The time dilation is due to the station moving very fast. A car that went around the world every 90 minutes would also experience the same thing. Interestingly though, gravity does also affect time, but being affected by a masses gravity actually has the opposite effect and speeds up time for objects the more they are affected by it. Earth's gravity is so minute, and the ISS is so close to Earth compared to a person on the surface, that this effect is pretty much a non-factor, and time dilation due to relative speed affects the ISS a lot more.

Didn't say it had anything to do with space,... or gravity,... that was just your assumption.

But simply a good example of the relationship between time and velocity,... as you figured out.

 

[ArtificialGhost]

What I find highly interesting is that we could effectively make ourselves immortal by uploading our consciousness to a computer. Think of what we could do if we could artificially improve our consciousness or remove certain negative aspects (ie mental illness). It's not beyond the realm of possibility that we could do exactly what the Matrix did, where knowledge was loaded into Neo's mind almost instantaneously. We'd effectively become super-human, yet at the same time no longer be biologically human.

Furthermore, if the prime goal in life is the pursuit of happiness, we could exist entirely in a dream-like software fantasy world where our every whim is met, while robots maintain the "real life" infrastructure for us.

People alive today might be among the first generations of people to live forever. Or almost forever.

 

[renuck]

What I find highly interesting is that we could effectively make ourselves immortal by uploading our consciousness to a computer.

This will happen one day I'm sure. Sci-fi writers are actually very valuable idea men for science. For instance Star Trek is damn near turning into a documentary. Tricorders - the common smart phone. Transporters have been done, although current technology limits this to only a few atoms. Replicators - 3D printers are an example for this fledgling technology. Impulse drive - google EmDrive. Universal translator - Google released one last November (Currently only good for 40 languages IIRC). Warp drive - we know how to do it in theory though current technology makes it currently unacheivable.

AI will happen too. In an experiment not too long ago scientists recreated portions of a bee's brain by creating virtual neurons and interfaced it with a drone. It essentially acted like a bee. It wasn't programmed to act like a bee it was just built like one. The computing power needed for this is immense (for now) but what will happen when computing power reaches the level that we can "create" a human brain?

Think of what we could do if we could <snip> remove certain negative aspects (ie mental illness)

This is already being done too using gene editing with CRISPR technology. There are already successful cases of "curing" lukemia, parkinson's, lung cancer, with dementia and altzheimer's on the radar. Though scientists/doctors warn it is still too new to tell if the patients will remain cured or if there will be any long term side effects.

 

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Crazy advancements in 2017 in computing technology for deep learning...

 

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Also crazy advancements with quantum computers such as with 2000 q-bit processors D-Wave 2000Q. For reference on how crazy this is....a 50 q-bit processor could achieve “quantum supremacy” by being more powerful then any conventional computer. In a fully entangled state 300 q-bits you have 2^300 classical bits which is as many particles as there are in the universe https://youtu.be/g_IaVepNDT4.

 

[Born2Star]

Well time travel is impossible simply because we believe the fact that nothing can travel faster than light. If one day it’s proven wrong time travel is possible ....

AI can destroy human, 100%. But until AI can create, reproduce and has emotion... it’s just human (using AI to) destroy human and that will happen way earlier than AI “becomes” human. So that point is moot.

 

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Well time travel is impossible simply because we believe the fact that nothing can travel faster than light. If one day it’s proven wrong time travel is possible ....

AI can destroy human, 100%. But until AI can create, reproduce and has emotion... it’s just human (using AI to) destroy human and that will happen way earlier than AI “becomes” human. So that point is moot.

Why do electrons behave differently when being observed in the double slit experiment...the observer collapsed the wave function simply by observing it.

Some say we are living in a simulation where time is affecting all time all the time...they speculate that with AI and quantum computing you will be able to simulate universes...

https://youtu.be/97FhauH1J58


Did you know they are using electrons and entanglement in quantum computing.

According to superstring theory, there are at least 10 dimensions in the universe (M-theory actually suggests that there are 11 dimensions to spacetime; bosonic string theories suggest 26 dimensions).

All I know is there is so much we don’t know yet, and will know thx to AI and quantum computing which will answer some of these questions and solve important problems that will improve our quality of life such as energy problems and medical field especially treating incurable diseases and conditions plus improve our environment and bio engineering .

 

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This video explains how they exploit the quantum nature of electrons where when we look at them or observe them they behave different and thus get used in quantum computing. Can anyone explain how do these electrons know how and when we are observing/measuring them to cause change in their behaviour from a wave to a particle? This guy mentions parallel universes...whatever it is, it’s real and brilliant that its being exploited for the greater good in such a way :hail:

 

[Indiana]

I want to reach immortality by download.

 

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LOOL...looks like Google already has a sophisticated AI with learning abilities and proven results.


http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/computer-program-can-beat-humans-go-no-human-instruction

The artificial intelligence (AI) program that last year smacked down the best human player in the ancient board game Go has gotten even better. AlphaGo bested South Korean Go master Lee Sedol in part by learning from a vast catalog of example moves by humans. Now, the latest version of the program, AlphaGo Zero, has mastered the game entirely on its own, researchers at DeepMind, the company that developed the program, announced in a press briefing Monday in London. The novel self-teaching techniques used by the new program might also find uses in other domains, such as traffic planning or drug discovery.