This is in reference to a post I recently read which talks about how there will be a boom in Artificial Intelligence which would make it as intelligent as humans and soon after that a lot more intelligent than us. It talks about the exponential growth of intelligence. It shows that AI would actually reach a point where it evolves in the range of earthworm to human in few years, days or even hours. Please read the really well researched post here.
A consequence of this Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is that we would either become immortal or extinct. While this may seem like a piece of fictional fantasy, it is extraordinarily plausible. The top people of the world in AI are not debating on whether it will come or not, but on when it will come. And that too in just the range of this century or the next. Nevertheless, we are almost sure that at least our grandchildren will get to see 'beings' hyperbolically more intelligent than them. Beings which we created.
While this does not appeal to us as we are not used to AI super-beings other than in sci-fi movies which we dismiss as full-on fantasy, what we might appreciate is that even if we don't reach ASI soon enough, we should, in the near future, be good enough in Nanotechnology and other branches of science which would assist Biology to the point that it won't be Biology any more. We would be making our own blood, our own hands, and our own brains. If you get your hand chopped off, you can order another from Amazon. If you get a brain cancer, you don't go to a neurosurgeon but an engineer who 'repairs' it to as-good-as-new. Our cells won't age. Eternal youth, immortality would not be words we just find in books. Something which Voldemort had to lose his soul for would be available at a drug store in plastic bottles.
This being a brief summary of (my interpretation of) the attached post, I would like to build on how the world would be when humans are immortal. I hope you appreciate that we are not talking about Elves from The Lord of the Rings, but about a very realistic scenario when "love you till eternity" could be possible literally.
While this does not appeal to us as we are not used to AI super-beings other than in sci-fi movies which we dismiss as full-on fantasy, what we might appreciate is that even if we don't reach ASI soon enough, we should, in the near future, be good enough in Nanotechnology and other branches of science which would assist Biology to the point that it won't be Biology any more. We would be making our own blood, our own hands, and our own brains. If you get your hand chopped off, you can order another from Amazon. If you get a brain cancer, you don't go to a neurosurgeon but an engineer who 'repairs' it to as-good-as-new. Our cells won't age. Eternal youth, immortality would not be words we just find in books. Something which Voldemort had to lose his soul for would be available at a drug store in plastic bottles.
This being a brief summary of (my interpretation of) the attached post, I would like to build on how the world would be when humans are immortal. I hope you appreciate that we are not talking about Elves from The Lord of the Rings, but about a very realistic scenario when "love you till eternity" could be possible literally.
