Friday, April 5, 2013

Technological Singularity? Agree or Disagree?


The theory of Technological Singularity that was created by Ray Kurzweil is a theory that I both agree and disagree with. The Technological Singularity typically postulate an "intelligence explosion", where super intelligence design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human. The reason that I agree with this theory, because of the technological advancement that is moving ahead at such a rapid pace, I wouldn't be surprised if we do create such highly intelligence beings. On the other hand, we never know if our technology will ever become advanced enough to do such things because it might be too much for us. I acknowledge that this can happen but I also think that our human capabilities might not be able to come up with the technology unless another Tim Berners-Lee or Bill Gates appears able to do the impossible because that’s what humans have been doing every day, tackling the impossible.

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