Thread: Musings on Clarke/Kubrick's 2001, AI, virtualization, and Ray Kurzweil
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Old 05-13-2013, 10:55 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by ZenGum View Post
Seriously, I reckon that in 100 years time, there's a 50% chance that the dominant "species" on earth will no longer be a biological life-form, but some kind of self-replicating technology whose first generations were created by humans, but who/which have long since transcended us.
Close, but Ray Kurzweil's 'Age of Spiritual Machines' will convince you that those next things will be us. AI isn't the end game, we just need an OS that we can run ourselves on. First, 'virtualized' people, next . . . something else. But it will be us. You could even say we 'go to heaven and live forever'

...or some dumb, implausible (or is it?) shit like that.
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