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Ironically, I did not really get into computers, or information technology until the late 1990’s (circa 1997), although I di have distant memories from my childhood about drawing mathematical patterns and drawings on paper, and funny little diagrams.
I remember doing this as a child!
If you had asked me when computer would think, with the same capability and capacity as a human brain, in 1985, when I was aged 12, (in 1985), I would have probably have said “By 2050 there will be a 50/50 chance of computers being BOTH as smart and also as idiosyncratic as a human and a human brain…”, -but then, circa 2017, I noticed that, -with a program called “Deep-Art” that a computer algorithm could do, and yes, indeed, DID, -did do something that I thought computers would never, EVER be able to do, and this was to map artistic style of one artwork to another artwork, and yet, this is EXACTLY what they did!
I was amazed.
TOTALLY AMAZED!
I was completely, 100%, and TOTALLY wrong about that!!
I also thought (also FULLY incorrectly), that computers were going to become bigger and more expensive.
I was completely, 100%, and TOTALLY wrong about that, also!!
I believe that it was Raymond Kurzweil who predicted the Internet (and probably many, MANY others), and I became both scared and a little paranoid after reading the book “1984” by George Orwell, about a dystopian, extreme socialist, fascist society, that was predicted by the book, and it seems like things have in someway turned out like this but in other ways they have not.
I mean, could a network of computers have been predicted by a society 1000 years ago, a 100 years ago, 50 years ago?!
The society described in 1984, is certainly NOT one that I would want to be part of, although, -no, I would not consider myself a socialist, but I do have a tendency to lean toward the left-wing, and liberal and softhearted by my political leanings.
One thing stayed with me from the book 1984, and this was when one of the proletarians (an older man), talked with the main character in the book, and the main character described him as
akin to a tiny, tiny, little “ant”, not that he was worthless or insignificant, (the author didn’t mean that), but he was akin to a tiny, tiny, little ant, in that he could see all the little mundane things directly in front of him, (for example, -the price of beer, type and availability of public transport, the metric and imperial systems of measurement (of weight, length and mass)), but he couldn’t really see the bigger picture, and the way that society worked, as a WHOLE.
I told this to a friend of mine that I was having a conversation with down inside a large yellow building, owned by people who put on a meal on Fridays, one Friday evening, and he told me that no-one or nobody really can see the BIGGER picture.
Personally, I believe that if computers cannot think as a human brain by the 2030s then they will not until the 2330s.
I have an intuitive hunch taht a Terminator 2 type scenario is on the cards, but whatever TRULY happens remains to be seen!
(Que Sera, Sera).
This concept of the “Hive-Mind” BOTH fascinates and scares me, and it is, what I believe that we are header for when we have to become cyborgs just to keep up and to stay ahead of artificial intelligence.
The hive mind has a set of cybernetically-enhanced-cyborg humans all hooked-up to a master artificial intelligence, and all inter-hooked-acorss-and-sideways to each other, and this society is kind of based (loosley/roughly) on the hive.
When one human has a thought, then ALL humans know, when one human feels pain, then ALL humans know, and this sort of society may be inescapable, inescapable for those who merely wish to SURVIVE!!
Am I religious, and do I believe in God?
Well, let me put it to you this way…
I believe in something or a creator, but I am kind of unsure what it/they/him/her/other really IS, and I believe that this absolute is completely, COMPLETELY unknowable, and, so…
…—>I guess I am what you could call “Agnostic”,
…by nature!!
:o).
