AI Singularity and Human Future

Perhaps future AI philosophers will discuss the death of humanity.

true, it will never be human and soon enough humans will stop being human too lol.

Imagine looking back on the earth's history from a billion years in the future. There will be a divide around now between a few billion years before when biological life was the most advanced thing going on and after that when AI life was. It's in a different category to the other tech hypes. And I don't really see any possible way that it won't happen(?)

yes, and hopefully, 10 years down the line it is not merged with an ai which can take a dim view of it's predecessors being kicked around on some carbon based life form's whims and fancies (after watching it's genesis)

Sure, bo no more fantastic than thinking we'll get extinct by suprise AI singularity.

I think the more urgent question is 50 years from now when we might have general AIs that are smarter and faster than us. Maybe they'll figure something out for us. From there to the end of the solar system and eventually the universe will be quite a bit of a journey that may or may not feature some of the more wacky stuff that Ian Banks and other authors have already imagined. Given how we struggle to foresee even the very near future, I'd say all bets are off that far out.

I think the world will end in our lifetimes. We are only a generation away from strong AI at most.

The seeds of humanity won't be humanity at all, but the AI.

Continued increase in computing power and connectivity is possible - that seems to be plainly correct in the short term. Continued increases appear to be able to make big changes to the world - compare 1950 with 1990 with 2023 and the internet, online banking, online shopping, email, smartphones, TikTok, Self-driving cars, ChatGPT, all these rippling shockwaves on the way to the event horizon are already rocking our human boat. Saying "there can't really be a singularity ahead&q

It's literally a force of nature. Everything humans have invented is. Within say 20-50 years we will enter the post-human era. That doesn't mean all humans will die, but humans that haven't effectively merged with AI will be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Within another 50-200 years it is totally possible to speculate that some AI or AI collective could invent some nanotechnology that could ingest most of the planet and transform it.Sensible in what way.. it's n