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What do you think of the concept of the Technological Singularity? Is this humankind's future?

What do you think of the concept of the Technological Singularity? Is this humankind's future?

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It may become reality in the future(the near or distant future I will not guess.) Computers these days are no way near the intelligence of humans yetThey have bested chess and draughts playersAnd they starting to play very good pokerIn the last year A.Iscientists have develops a poker program that can bluff (a little, and they will get sophisticated quicklyBut machines cannot close to bridge players or go playersIf we can build massively parallel computers massive advances will be madeBut fuzzy logic must be mastered, and also wide analogous thinkingWe are very close to making memory chips that will capable of implantation and hooking up to memory neural networks, capable of being accessed by the pre-frontal cortex(which is involved with higher thinking) I never say impossible, and I am very charry of giving time estimatesMost futurologists think in straight line regressionsThe thinking must be wrong as there are so many inventions scientific discoveries that turn technology on its head(e.glasers in product code readers in supermarkets), (or the zipper ca1897, or velcro 1948, or the Pilkington's float glass process, that were giant technological leaps with no antecedents, but completely changed technology)Some of these advances are well described as disruptive technologyI hope these thoughts make for interesting readingRegards, DocDan.

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