If we imagine describing the dangers that exist today to people who lived a couple of hundred years ago, they would think it mad to take such risks. Relinquishing technological advancement would be economic suicide for individuals, companies, and nations. Happy writing! As the technology improves, the accuracy of the copy could become as close as the original changes within ever briefer periods of time (e.g., one second, one millisecond, one microsecond). The BMJ hopes that this bill will eventually become law. The overall growth of the economy reflects completely new forms and layers of wealth and value that did not previously exist, or least that did not previously constitute a significant portion of the economy (but do now): intellectual property, communication portals, web sites, bandwidth, software, data bases, and many other new technology based categories. Again, if we weren’t here, we would not be noticing it. And if the product itself doesn’t exhibit some level of intelligence, then intelligence in the manufacturing and marketing methods have a major effect on the success and profitability of an enterprise. If you ask the people in the machine, they will strenuously claim to be the original persons. As one of the only Western industrialized countries, the United States is a country that still actively used the death penalty. Progress in medical science depends on progress in chemistry, physics, biology, computer science and other fields. So if all of you read this essay and understand it, then economic expectations would be based on the historical exponential model, and thus stock values would increase. Our forebears expected the future to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past. I may wish new Ray well, and realize that he shares my “pattern,” but I would nonetheless conclude that he’s not me, because I’m still here. <> In another positive feedback loop, as a particular evolutionary process (e.g., computation) becomes more effective (e.g., cost effective), greater resources are deployed toward the further progress of that process. To put the concept of Singularity into perspective, let’s explore the history of the word itself. Values are a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society. Given that the electrons have less distance to travel, the circuits also run twice as fast, providing an overall quadrupling of computational power. Genuine abandonment, as Curtis mentioned above as in his case, sadly this is usually accompanied by the adultery. So it would at least appear that intelligence is more powerful than physics. No matter how convincing the behavior of a reinstantiated person, some observers will refuse to accept the consciousness of an entity unless it squirts neurotransmitters, or is based on DNA-guided protein synthesis, or has some other specific biologically human attribute. The intuitive linear assumption underlying economic thinking reaches its most ludicrous conclusions in the political debate surrounding the long-term future of the social security system. rate of progress of an evolutionary process increases exponentially over time. The upcoming primary paradigm shift will be from biological thinking to a hybrid combining biological and nonbiological thinking. People tend to have strong views on the subject, and often just can’t understand how anyone else could possibly see the issue from a different perspective. By 1000 A.D., progress was much faster and a paradigm shift required only a century or two. On the other hand, how many people in the year 2000 would really want to go back to the short, brutish, disease-filled, poverty-stricken, disaster-prone lives that 99 percent of the human race struggled through a couple of centuries ago? In physics, similarly, a singularity denotes an event or location of infinite power. And just who are these people in the machine, anyway? A factor of 100 translates into approximately 6 years (today) and less than 6 years later in the twenty-first century. But ultimately, the scans and recreations will be very accurate and realistic. Although the information contained in a human brain would require thousands of trillions of bytes of information (on the order of 100 billion neurons times an average of 1,000 connections per neuron, each with multiple neurotransmitter concentrations and connection data), the design of the brain is characterized by a human genome of only about a billion bytes. The answer depends on what we mean by the word “computer.” Certainly the brain uses very different methods from conventional contemporary computers. None of this means that cycles of recession will disappear immediately. We can also express the exponential growth of computing in terms of an accelerating pace: it took ninety years to achieve the first MIPS (million instructions per second) per thousand dollars, now we add one MIPS per thousand dollars every day. The issue, however, is exactly this: at what level are we to relinquish technology? Yet the fifteen year project was nonetheless completed slightly ahead of schedule. But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. When the scientists evolve to be a million times more intelligent and operate a million times faster, then an hour would result in a century of progress (in today’s terms). We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for one cent around the year 2059. Then again, if you skim the "junk DNA" (which may or may not really be junk), you can shrink it quite a bit. There are many technologies in the wings that build circuitry in three dimensions. I do feel that relinquishment at the right level is part of a responsible and constructive response to these genuine perils. 9 Arguments Against the Death Penalty: Are There Any Pros? WE do not agree with the position of the Department of Education (DepEd) that a “no homework” policy, prohibiting teachers from assigning academic work to be completed by students outside of regular school hours, is beneficial to Filipino students. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already exists in more sophisticated labs) to create unfriendly pathogens more dangerous than nuclear weapons. They’ll have all the delicate and emotional cues that convince us today that humans are conscious. Most importantly, it is my view that the intelligence that will emerge will continue to represent the human civilization, which is already a human-machine civilization. Indeed, the emergence of the first technology creating species resulted in the new evolutionary process of technology. The massive parallelism of the human brain is the key to its pattern recognition abilities, which reflects the strength of human thinking. This scenario involves only capabilities that we can touch and feel today. Here we scan someone’s brain to map the locations, interconnections, and contents of all the somas, axons, dendrites, presynaptic vesicles, neurotransmitter concentrations, and other neural components and levels. I believe you can be anti-war or pro-tulsi without being nationalist about it. Not shockingly, opinions vary wildly and this is a heated debate among scientists and thinkers. We can peer inside someone’s brain today with noninvasive scanners, which are increasing their resolution with each new generation of this technology. For a variety of reasons it is easier to scan the brain of someone recently deceased than of someone still living. Well, how perfect does a download have to be? But the brain gains its prodigious powers from its extremely parallel organization in three dimensions. But from our currently limited perspective, this imminent event appears to be an acute and abrupt break in the continuity of progress. We exposed it to thousands of hours of recorded speech, corrected its errors, and patiently improved its performance. Other primary concerns include “who is controlling the nanobots?” and “who are the nanobots talking to?” Organizations (e.g., governments, extremist groups) or just a clever individual could put trillions of undetectable nanobots in the water or food supply of an individual or of an entire population. We will continue to build more powerful computational mechanisms because it creates enormous value. The primary features that are not yet practical are nanobot size and cost. Although I anticipate that the most common application of the knowledge gained from reverse engineering the human brain will be creating more intelligent machines that are not necessarily modeled on specific biological human individuals, the scenario of scanning and reinstantiating all of the neural details of a specific person raises the most immediate questions of identity. These “spy” nanobots could then monitor, influence, and even control our thoughts and actions. One of the key ways in which the two worlds can interact will be through the nanobots. Although there’s a skull around the brain, it is not hidden from our view. Well, for one thing, they would come up with technology to become even more intelligent (because their intelligence is no longer of fixed capacity). These two charts plot the same data, but one is on an exponential axis and the other is linear. Then our minds won’t have to stay so small, being constrained as they are today to a mere hundred trillion neural connections each operating at a ponderous 200 digitally controlled analog calculations per second. It indicates that their mathematical model of these neurons was reasonably accurate. That is, they haven’t gotten here yet. It represents the nearly vertical phase of exponential growth where the rate of growth is so extreme that technology appears to be growing at infinite speed. Some would say that we cannot comprehend the Singularity, at least with our current level of understanding, and that it is impossible, therefore, to look past its “event horizon” and make sense of what lies beyond. When I plotted the 49 machines on an exponential graph (where a straight line means exponential growth), I didn’t get a straight line. There are a myriad of such examples. Chart by Scientific American. What is the maximum speed? Most of the complexity of a human neuron is devoted to maintaining its life support functions, not its information processing capabilities. Explain. Incidentally, this is not an argument against the SETI project, which in my view should have the highest possible priority because the negative finding is no less significant than a positive result. So for now, we can say that ultra high levels of intelligence will expand outward at the speed of light, but recognize that this may not be the actual limit of the speed of expansion, or even if the limit is the speed of light that this limit may not restrict reaching other locations quickly. 3. Although noninvasive means of scanning the brain from outside the skull are rapidly improving, the most practical approach to capturing every salient neural detail will be to scan it from inside. Indeed it is very unlikely. We can then have our computers read all of the world’s literature–books, magazines, scientific journals, and other available material. From the mathematician’s perspective, a primary reason for this is that an exponential curve approximates a straight line when viewed for a brief duration. Search for joy and it will elude you. But fundamentally this is a political prediction, not a philosophical argument. There is no need for high interest rates to counter an inflation that doesn’t exist. There is a record of each stage of technology, and each new stage of technology builds on the order of the previous stage. If we view the exponential growth of computation in its proper perspective as one example of the pervasiveness of the exponential growth of information based technology, that is, as one example of many of the law of accelerating returns, then we can confidently predict its continuation. Olivary Complex (includes LSO and MSO). The underlying long-term growth rate will continue at a double exponential rate. There is a vital economic imperative to create more intelligent technology. In his cover story for WIRED Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us, Bill Joy eloquently described the plagues of centuries’ past, and how new self-replicating technologies, such as mutant bioengineered pathogens, and “nanobots” run amok, may bring back long forgotten pestilence. So evolution moves inexorably toward our conception of God, albeit never quite reaching this ideal. There are already multiple efforts under way to scan the human brain and apply the insights derived to the design of intelligent machines. Is there not a point where humans are unable to think fast enough to keep up with it? However, if we are diligent in maintaining our mind file, keeping current backups, and porting to current formats and mediums, then a form of immortality can be attained, at least for software-based humans. This perspective has not been considered in discussions of future cosmology. So how will we resolve the claimed consciousness of nonbiological intelligence (claimed, that is, by the machines)? He will say “I grew up in Queens, New York, went to college at MIT, stayed in the Boston area, started and sold a few artificial intelligence companies, walked into a scanner there, and woke up in the machine here. What is behind this remarkably predictable phenomenon? Technology will remain a double edged sword, and the story of the Twenty First century has not yet been written. Before considering further the implications of the Singularity, let’s examine the wide range of technologies that are subject to the law of accelerating returns. The organization and content of these resources–the software of intelligence–is also critical. A factor of a billion is around 24 years (keep in mind computation is growing by a double exponential). Detection of transients. Of course, we expect to see exponential growth in electronic memories such as RAM. It gives importance and value to time. There are tens of thousands of projects that are advancing intelligent machines in diverse incremental ways. As a contemporary example, we spent years teaching one research computer how to recognize continuous human speech. Most forecasts of the future seem to ignore the revolutionary impact of the Singularity in our human destiny: the inevitable emergence of computers that match and ultimately vastly exceed the capabilities of the human brain, a development that will be no less important than the evolution of human intelligence itself some thousands of centuries ago. This gradual replacement of my brain with a nonbiological equivalent is essentially identical to the following sequence: On yet another hand (we’re running out of philosophical hands here), the gradual replacement scenario is not altogether different from what happens normally to our biological selves, in that our particles are always rapidly being replaced. For complete details, see below. Thus, for the past two centuries, automation has been eliminating jobs at the bottom of the skill ladder while creating new (and better paying) jobs at the top of the skill ladder. In my view, it is one manifestation (among many) of the exponential growth of the evolutionary process that is technology. Certainly reasoned critiques of his arguments by the few credible computer-industry folks who've taken the time to consider it are as relevant as the fact that he like Carrie Underwood and Alanis Morissette. But what would a thousand scientists, each a thousand times more intelligent than human scientists today, and each operating a thousand times faster than contemporary humans (because the information processing in their primarily nonbiological brains is faster) accomplish? I am at this moment in a very different quantum state (and different in non-quantum ways as well) than I was a minute ago (certainly in a very different state than I was before I wrote this paragraph). ICC: Central Nucleus of the Inferior Colliculus. Hem, however, remains unconvinced that the cheese will disappear. Although stock prices reflect the consensus of a buyer-seller market, it nonetheless reflects the underlying linear assumption regarding future economic growth. We are rather like the patterns that water makes in a stream. Another implication of the law of accelerating returns is exponential growth in education and learning. Brain scanning technologies are also increasing their resolution with each new generation, just what we would expect from the law of accelerating returns. During the Cambrian explosion, major paradigm shifts took only tens of millions of years. If we examine the timing of these steps, we see that the process has continuously accelerated. Although some scientists have claimed to detect quantum wave collapse in the brain, no one has suggested human capabilities that actually require a capacity for quantum computing. That show their inmaturity. The nanobots take up positions in close physical proximity to every interneuronal connection coming from all of our senses (e.g., eyes, ears, skin). Even generous models of human knowledge and capability are more than accounted for by current estimates of brain size, based on contemporary models of neuron functioning that do not include tubules. The most compelling scenario for mastering the software of intelligence is to tap into the blueprint of the best example we can get our hands on of an intelligent process. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species. The reserves that banks and financial institutions maintain with the Federal Reserve System are less than $50 billion, which is only 0.6% of the GDP, and 0.25% of the liquidity available in stocks. The same is true for Ray Kurzweil. Furthermore, most of the genome is redundant, so the initial design of the brain is characterized by approximately one hundred million bytes, about the size of Microsoft Word. Or to take a more recent example, the advent of computer assisted design tools allows rapid development of the next generation of computers. University of Chicago Professor Pete Klenow and University of Rochester Professor Mark Bils estimate that the value of existing goods has been increasing at 1.5% per year for the past 20 years because of qualitative improvements. I emphasize this point because it is the most important failure that would-be prognosticators make in considering future trends. 2 0 obj Computing inter-aural time difference (difference in time of arrival between the two ears, used to tell where a sound is coming from). Nanobots will be introduced without surgery, essentially just by injecting or even swallowing them. The Institute scientists demonstrated their invention by controlling the movement of a living leech from their computer. MC: Multipolar Cells. The economy still has some of the underlying dynamics that historically have caused cycles of recession, specifically excessive commitments such as capital intensive projects and the overstocking of inventories. As a test case, we can take a small measure of comfort from how we have dealt with one recent technological challenge. How does he view it, compared with Oppenheimer? (i) The (ever growing) order of the evolutionary process itself. If the SETI assumption that there are many (e.g., millions) of technological (at least radio capable) civilizations is correct, then at least some of them (i.e., millions of them) would be way ahead of us. But is that person based on my mind file, who migrates across many computational substrates, and who outlives any particular thinking medium, really me? These observations do not rely merely on an assumption of the continuation of Moore’s law (i.e., the exponential shrinking of transistor sizes on an integrated circuit), but is based on a rich model of diverse technological processes. Each time one paradigm runs out of steam, another picks up the pace. Now back to the future: it’s widely misunderstood. This graph matches the available data for the twentieth century through all five paradigms and provides projections for the twenty-first century. 5. Whatever people mean to say, they just can’t seem to make it clear.”. Yet the “immune system” that has evolved in response to this challenge has been largely effective. %äüöß That is why they are being built. Are these “people” conscious at all? He sometimes is even responsible for it happenning, i.e. %PDF-1.4 Productivity (economic output per worker) has also been growing exponentially. Conversely, when it comes to self replicating entities that are potentially lethal on a large scale, our response on all levels will be vastly more serious. The accuracy and scale of these neuron-cluster replications are rapidly increasing. Of course, from a mathematical perspective, there is no discontinuity, no rupture, and the growth rates remain finite, albeit extraordinarily large. We consider death as giving meaning to our lives. Perhaps what I should say is that intelligence is more powerful than cosmology. So even though the rate of progress in the very recent past (e.g., this past year) is far greater than it was ten years ago (let alone a hundred or a thousand years ago), our memories are nonetheless dominated by our very recent experience. . So the question addressed by the San Diego researchers was whether electronic neurons could engage in this chaotic dance alongside biological ones. James Goodale, former general counsel of The New York Times, who urged the paper to publish the Pentagon Papers … The most immediately accessible way to accomplish this is through destructive scanning: we take a frozen brain, preferably one frozen just slightly before rather than slightly after it was going to die anyway, and examine one brain layer–one very thin slice–at a time. Incidentally, I have always considered the science fiction notion of large space ships with large squishy creatures similar to us to be very unlikely. This is why we are not seeing inflation. Let’s consider the issue of just who I am, and who the new Ray is a little more carefully. The economy “wants” to grow more than the 3.5% per year, which constitutes the current “speed limit” that the Federal Reserve bank and other policy makers have established as “safe,” meaning noninflationary. What it clearly shows is that technology, particularly the pace of technological change, advances (at least) exponentially, not linearly, and has been doing so since the advent of technology, indeed since the advent of evolution on Earth. For one thing, old biological Ray (that’s me) still exists. We are already creating functionally equivalent recreations of neurons and neuron clusters with sufficient accuracy that biological neurons accept their nonbiological equivalents and work with them as if they were biological. In other words, we are in the lead. Now if you want your own personal computer to recognize speech, it doesn’t have to go through the same process; you can just download the fully trained patterns in seconds. All of the electronics for the computation, image reconstruction, and very high bandwidth wireless connection to the Internet will be embedded in our glasses and woven into our clothing, so computers as distinct objects will disappear. This takes into account many levels of “cleverness” (i.e., innovation, which is to say, technological evolution). Penrose suggests that the tubules and their quantum computing capabilities complicate the concept of recreating neurons and reinstantiating mind files. However we end up at the place of disobedience, all of us who claim to be followers of Jesus struggle to obey the commands of our Lord. The human brain actually uses a very inefficient electrochemical digital controlled analog computational process. The point is that if there are ways around this limit (or any other currently understood limit), then the extraordinary levels of intelligence that our human-machine civilization will achieve will find those ways and exploit them. It will eventually be possible to combine the two by having nanotechnology provide the codes within biological entities (replacing DNA), in which case biological entities can use the much safer Broadcast Architecture. x��YM��6�ׯ�y��ѷ,�P@u�+@n�4�� ��&@������G$%��lw�jʶ(S����J�����eR�/h3�d���>����]5}����~�ʝ�s������O=i7����Ź����5\����b.��e Manufacturing productivity grew at 4.4% annually from 1995 to 1999, durables manufacturing at 6.5% per year. 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