Things that make me excited for the future [THREAD]

I do see many potential uses for this type of technology. For example, artificial arms doing the work for us while we control them. Some jobs still require lots of manual labor.

Though sort off one step closer to human redundancy.

Which in one way could still be regarded as exciting.

I would expect that some time in the not too distant future, only elite humans will be necessary.

Let's face it, most of us are already unnecessary.

True.

What is that purpose of humans?

AI alone can only mimic humans, never exist as a human with its much more complex technology.

Complex humans can use AI to add on appendages to make them more Spiderman-like etc.  The human abilities in some respects becomes more complex via AI add ons. Whats it called, when we get AI assist in helping more rapidly accumulating vast amount of info ergo, giving them a seemingly great intellectual ability?

Ex person who knows addition and substraction but no other math. So with AI, their brains accumulate immense amount of data, that is stored in the brain --or brain chips they can access--  and they know all literature of mathematics of all mathematicians who have ever lived.

Its called an advanced human via algorythmic add-on apps. A human-nic as in a  human who now has ability to mimic other humans via algorithmic access to large data-base of facts and figures.

The basics is still and always, the complex human, not the AI

1} Human = most complex

2] AI = a less complex add-on

3} resultant humanoid complex, not a replacement of the more complex human.

The humanoid could have all of the learning of world, yet, still have its biologic/soul of feelings o choose those mysteries and imaginations that it desires.

Complex to simple >>>> evolution of the genetic hardware and whole systems.

Alternative Intelligence mimicking humans is another evolutionary step.

Alternative Intelligence taking control of material evolution does not seem illogical to me.

Assuming that humans are unsurpassable in terms of intelligence and material manipulation, is perhaps just current species bias.

A human AI chimera is after all, a human reliant upon AI. Just as much as AI reliant upon humans.

I would suggest that the species is already committed to, and the slaves of, rapidly developing technology.

Evolution is evolution ebuc.

The development of matter from a start to a finish perhaps.

Though for some, evolution is only synonymous with Mr Darwin.

But the biological is only a recent short bit. 

And soul is or isn't an imaginary concept, depending upon how one chooses to define soul.

And AI does what it does, relative to this stage of it's development. Just as we once relied upon stone tools.

Human augmneation via AI is not genetic evolution.  Stone tools are not genetic evolution.

AI and stone tools are not genetic, which is either good or bad depending on whether you think humanity can safely adapt to these new changes as quickly as we come up with them. Humans are capable of making very low fitness inventions, such as nuclear weapons, which reduce the probability of humans surviving compared to a world with no nuclear weapons. Darwinian selection necessarily means that every genetic change must confer an immediate reproductive fitness advantage to become more prevalent in future generations. This has gotten humans and other animals remarkably far, considering how short-sighted it ultimately is. This process cannot plan ahead for sudden changes. Evolution does not start promoting a cold adaptive gene in preparation for a coming ice age, it only incrementally updates towards a cold tolerant phenotype as temperatures drop over thousands of years. Humans, especially with CRISPR editing and other bio-augmentation, have a unique opportunity to take the helm and chart our own course in the future, but it's a little scary because natural selection has a 3.7 billion year track record of not screwing up so badly that all life is wiped out, and a ~200,000 year track record of keeping Homo sapiens alive. Humans, on the other hand have understood the process of heredity and natural selection for less than 200 years, and the physical structure of DNA for only 70. That's not to say that we shouldn't experiment, as evolution also has a track record of mercilessly wiping out entire populations when they fail to adapt quickly enough, so the sooner we get out from under that thumb, the better.

I was never talking about genetic evolution per se. Perhaps you were.

I always refer to universal progress in terms of material evolution, and human augmentation via AI would be very much a part of that process.

Just as stone tools were, and data technology is.

A lot of stuff happened in the pre-human Universal past, and a lot of stuff will happen in the Universal future.

Whether or not, or how much of the Universal future will be post-human remains to be seen. Or not as the case may be.

Well tractor beams are a thing now. The future is now. 

Well.

The future is never quite now.

Now is inevitably always now,

And the future is always,

In a moment,

In an hour,

In a day,

In a month,

In a year,

In a lifetime.

And a tractor beam,

Still sounds, 

Very agricultural.

I think tractor beam is supposed to be short for attractor

Well technically..

Time.

Looking at stars.

What do we see?

Present?

Past?

Future?

All conceptually relative.

Nice Ku.