Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2917 to 2921 (16-20 March 2015)
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Mar 2015, 03:39 ---It would explain why the Singularity has occurred so quickly even though Dr E-C's first significant breakthroughs only happened about two decades previously (based on what Clinton said and the fact that young Hannelore named at least two of the AIs associated with the space station) if there was a degree of 'evolution' with each new iteration of AIs. Very quickly, 'biologically' generated AI algorithms would have surpassed human-coded ones for sophistication and efficiency.
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You've nerd sniped me, here. Experts in the field of AI have, for the most part, estimated that the period between the rise of AI on par with humans and the rise of superintelligent AI will be quite small, indeed. Even if it's just mixing and matching better and better algorithms, the ability of AIs will increase. Heck, maybe the most intelligent of AIs collude to breed their code together in new and fantastic forms.
And if you want a source... I'll give you an entire primer on the subject.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: rfrank dodelijk on 16 Mar 2015, 06:46 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Mar 2015, 04:09 ---
--- Quote from: rfrank dodelijk on 16 Mar 2015, 03:59 ---what is the singularity?
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"The Singularity" in terms of computer science is the point where artificial intelligences designed by other artificial intelligences without human intervention are more sophisticated and efficient than their human-created equivalents. It is at that point that AIs would be considered a separate species with a separate existence and place in the global ecosystem of intelligence from humans.
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i'm with you. I didn't know there was a word for that.
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I think some definitions of the "Singularity" (such as SF writer Charles Stross's) envision a so-called "rapture of the nerds," wherein human consciousness and machine consciousness converge so that we can upload ourselves into "the cloud."
pwhodges:
As in the anime Serial Experiments Lain, I guess that is.
vidugavia:
Pintsize, Momo, Winslow and May might already be part of one large super-AI that has taken upon itself to groom the gang. It keeps its subroutines as separate personalities in order to keep the trust of its unknowing wards/pets.
hedgie:
Unless Station was in on the conspiracy, I don't see him allowing Winslow do that to Hanners. He certainly has the resources.
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