{"id":21275,"date":"2011-07-18T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=21275"},"modified":"2011-08-07T18:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T22:09:14","slug":"given-the-power-of-these-developing-technologies-society-has-a-critical-need-for-our-hearts-to-be-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/07\/18\/given-the-power-of-these-developing-technologies-society-has-a-critical-need-for-our-hearts-to-be-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Given the power of these developing technologies, society has a critical need for our hearts to be right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\nItems re: The Singularity:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/press-releases\/11\/06\/p1135397\/the-singularity-just-got-a-lot-closer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Singularity just got a lot closer<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Benzinga.com<br \/>\nNew tool by ai-one inc. allows programmers to build artificial intelligence into almost any software application.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;&#8230;ai-one&#8217;s \u201cbiologically inspired intelligence\u201d is a virtual brain that learns without human intervention.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kurzweil<\/em> Accelerating Intelligence<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/\">www.<strong>kurzweil<\/strong>ai.net\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/cite><strong>&#8230;<\/strong> accelerating change articulated in Ray <em>Kurzweil&#8217;s<\/em> landmark books \u2014 notably <em>The Age of Spiritual Machines<\/em> and <em>The Singularity is Near<\/em> \u2014 and updates these <strong><\/strong><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.singularity.com\/\">http:\/\/www.singularity.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_singularity\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_singularity<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link: Michael Vassar and Michael Anissimov Talk About the Singularity on Supreme Master TV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acceleratingfuture.com\/michael\/blog\/2010\/12\/michael-vassar-and-michael-anissimov-talk-about-the-singularity-on-supreme-master-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Vassar and Michael Anissimov Talk About the Singularity on Supreme Master TV<\/a><\/strong> (12\/27\/10)<\/li>\n<li><em>Excerpt from<\/em> <strong><a title=\"Permanent Link: The Illusion of Control in a Intelligence Amplification Singularity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acceleratingfuture.com\/michael\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-illusion-of-control-in-a-intelligence-amplification-singularity\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Illusion of Control in a Intelligence Amplification Singularity<\/a><\/strong> (7\/1\/11)<br \/>\nFrom what I understand, <em>we\u2019re currently at a point in history where the importance of getting the Singularity right pretty much outweighs all other concerns,<\/em> particularly because a negative Singularity is one of the existential threats which could wipe out all of humanity rather than \u201cjust\u201d billions. The Singularity is the most extreme power discontinuity in history. A probable \u201cwinner takes all\u201d effect means that after a hard takeoff (quick bootstrapping to superintelligence), humanity could be at the mercy of an unpleasant dictator or human-indifferent optimization process for eternity.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/innovation\/us\/watson\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM&#8217;s Watson<\/a> | <\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/deepqa\/deepqa.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">IBM&#8217;s Deep QA Project<\/a>| <\/strong><em>Human vs. Machine<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I don&#8217;t mean to suggest here that just because someone is pursuing the development of AI, robotics, etc. that their heart isn&#8217;t right &#8212; that&#8217;s just not accurate and such a perspective would be painting a broad and bogus swath across mankind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But from some of the robotic and AI-related sites and blogs that I&#8217;ve seen (and not necessarily those listed above), I&#8217;m becoming a bit more skeptical of peoples&#8217; motivations in this space, as many of these folks seem to be saying they can create better than God can.\u00a0 Alternatively, some don&#8217;t believe in a Creator at all, and thus want to make themselves the ultimate creator.\u00a0 When inventors, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, military leaders, and other relevant parties have &#8220;hearts of flesh&#8221; that are compassionate, caring, and giving&#8230;these technologies can be very useful and beneficial.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m more concerned if these types of technologies are warped into a pathway for power, personal gain, military applications, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10561\" title=\"TheStateOfTheHeart\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/TheStateOfTheHeart2.jpg\" alt=\"The State of the Heart\" width=\"654\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/TheStateOfTheHeart2.jpg 654w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/TheStateOfTheHeart2-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Last Look: War of the machines?\" href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/04\/last-look-war-of-the-machines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Last Look: War of the machines?<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from cnn.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1769673\/the-diy-terminator-drones-robots-and-the-crowdsourced-future-of-war\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from FastCompany.com by Greg Lindsay\n<div id=\"article-deck\">In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Items re: The Singularity: The Singularity just got a lot closer &#8212; from Benzinga.com New tool by ai-one inc. allows programmers to build artificial intelligence into almost any software application. &#8220;&#8230;ai-one&#8217;s \u201cbiologically inspired intelligence\u201d is a virtual brain that learns without human intervention.&#8221; Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence &#8212; www.kurzweilai.net\/ &#8230; accelerating change articulated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,72,425,95,500,248,377,437,480],"tags":[627,125,606,772,96,798,696,750,792,502],"class_list":["post-21275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faith","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-religion","category-robotics","category-society","tag-21st-century","tag-ai","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-global","tag-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-society","tag-the-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21275"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21287,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions\/21287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}