The only thing I dont agree with is computers ever exceeding the human brain. The reason is simple. Computers are unable to do anything by themselves. They need to be programmed. Who does the programming?

 

Eventually computers will do the programming!

Remember, China may have more honor students than we have kids, but they also have more idiots than us!

 

Robots are taking over the world maaaann!!

Really cool video. Puts in perspective how far mankind has come and how far its going.

Seriously though,

Artificial Intelligence is real. Thats how all the predictions come about that computers will be smarter than humans. It will learn like the human brain but have the fast computing power of a computer.

That way it learns at a super accelerated rate. Itll learn what a human COULD learn in say 5 lifetimes in 10 years. (Im just throwing that out there...)

We better start making a matrix..

-Dustin

 

It's the creativity of the honors kids and numbskulls that'll scare you.

 

That thing was all over the place:

What I do know is that I'll be employed for a goodly long time.

 

I never bought the whole AI thing. Lets take something like Assimo. Sure he can respond, do things "on his own" etc, but AI is still programmed. They are not actually thinking for themselves.

The one thing that separates humans from computers is the power of reason.

Cumputers cannot think, rationalize, understand, etc. i-robot isnt happening IMHO.

 

You'll notice the director dodges the subject by stating "computational ability."

One of the more ridiculous flaws of many humans is insisting that computers aren't tools/appliances. They're very flexible tools, but are appliances/tools nonetheless.

Right now, the machines I work on hold more information than the "ready-state" memory of most humans. We're going to encroach on the (afaik) ~600TB capacity of a human brain (per machine) very soon. We can already grid-cluster the 600TB.

However, the quality of the information stored, and it's application is still an empty palatte.

Reason, free choice, serendipity. . . there's a whole slew of human experiences that will take eons to "replicate" IMHO.

 

As Michael Jackson once said: "You just have to Believe."

 

It's amazing. Not to sound cynical, but eventually we will end up destroying everything by ourselves. Either that or one day, people will just start realizing that they don't want to be a part of this rat race anymore and will slow these advances down.

 

Interesting video. Somewhat depressing, somewhat inspirational, somewhat...I dunno. Just kinda crazy I guess.