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Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:16:19
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. Yet in his history of such
ideas,Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns: "In the game of life and
evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and
machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side
of the machines." As we have seen, Moravec agrees, believing we may well not
survive the encounter with the superior robot species.
How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in
computing power seem to make it possible by 2030. And once an intelligent robot
exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can
make evolved copies of itself.
A second dream of robotics is that we will gradually replace ourselves with our
robotic technology, achieving near immortality by downloading our
consciousnesses; it is this process that Danny Hillis thinks we will gradually get
used to and that Ray Kurzweil elegantly details inThe Age of Spiritual Machines.
(We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer
devices into the human body, as illustrated on thecover ofWired 8.02.)
But if we are downloaded into our technology, what are the chances that we will
thereafter be ourselves or even human? It seems to me far more likely that a
robotic existence would not be like a human one in any sense that we understand,
that the robots would in no sense be our children, that on this path our humanity
may well be lost
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