I suppose you could view this entry as a kind of a post-script to the one below or whatever but since writing it, I read a jaw-dropping article on Artificial Intelligence in the FT Weekend Magazine and was gobsmacked by how some of our smarter brethren, namely yon technology brain-boxes, see our not-too-distant future panning out ... and by how completely far-out their ideas really are. Par exemple:
- " ... when computers match humans in intelligence, humans would cede leadership in technological development, since the machines would be capable of improving their own designs by themselves ... and with the accelerating pace of technological change, it wouldn't be long before the capabilities - and goals - of the computers would far surpass human understanding."
und dann ...
- " ... aided by their brilliant machines, humans could quickly colonise space, cure ageing and upload their minds onto computers. It's just a case of getting past the dangerous moment of the intelligence explosion. If we can make it to the next century and achieve technological maturity, we could have another billion years!"
God knows, any assessment of your own IQ is always a depressing pursuit when there are eggheads nearby but surely this is taking the biscuit. There're people out there talking seriously about uploading their minds onto computers so as to conquer space and live forever while I'm sat at the controls here in dumb-ass central still trying to figure out how they put the figs into the fig rolls.
Sweet divine lord!
Gid orrfff me ... I'm only artifishlee intellimigent!
Upload my mind...live forever...sod that, put on the kettle and pass me those fig rolls
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