Jason Silva Looks At Artificial Intelligence

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With his latest Shot of Awe, Jason Silva looks at the intelligence explosion. According to him, intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe, and it is only a natural consequence of evolution that it will expand exponentially.

I n his latest Shot of Awe, Jason Silva looks at artificial intelligence.  Not content to talk about the current state of the art, Silva looks at how I.J. Good's intelligence explosion is the most likely result of our progress in this area of technology.

Leading with a great quote from Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants, Silva talks over a dazzling array of technological images.

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"What artificial intelligence ultimately comes down to is outsourcing our cognition into a machine," says Silva.

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"It's about amplifying the most powerful phenomenon in the universe," he continues.  "Once we can create sentience which is not bound by our biology we will literally be creating a sentience that can upgrade itself.".

Silva doesn't feel threatened by the intelligence explosion, rather, like Ray Kurzweil, he sees our future being one where we evolve with our machines.

"The human era will have ended - we will become our creations."


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