INTRODUCTION

Proliferation of technology is set to dominate our society in the coming decades. Technological redundancy will lead to joblessness and therefore a modification of our ways of life and society, and the dawn of a new society of tomorrow where automation spontaneously creates food, energy and items of utility for the human populace.


Technological growth has been accelerating at a rate never seen before in known history. This proliferation will continue until it surpasses the sum of all human intelligence. The model of accelerating returns predicts that we will reach artificial capabilities equal to the entire human civilization, 1026 cps for the cost of $1000 at around 2049. The possible routes to such an event are; (1) We create superhuman artificial intelligence (2) The network of embedded microprocessors starts to elicit superhuman intelligence. (3) Enhancements of human intelligence through smart human-to-computer interfaces which melds together the human mind with the AI’s capabilities, leading to intelligence amplification. (4) We directly increase our intelligence by improving the neurological operation of our brains via brain scanning and genetics. (5) The Internet of Things (IoT) coalesces spontaneously to represent coherent intelligence across the entire planet.


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Dovetailing to the second option, attempts to stop AI from attaining sentient and self-aware abilities has been foreseen and concepts such as (1) Nanny AI to monitor all AI research and (2) Statutes and prohibitions for designers, builders and users of robots have been suggested by the AI community. However, proponents of ‘Technological Singularity’ claim that it cannot be stopped and such prohibitive attempts will only render lower economic outputs, which may be threatening to the existence of an ever increasing human population.atquodiu simissoliis nectem a sequia et autatis.

THE FIFTH EPOCH

As another perspective, instead of associating ‘Technological Singularity’ with monikers from pop-culture and scifi, such as ‘The Terminator’, ‘Skynet’ and ‘Robot-Take-over’, Ray Kurzweil suggests that it as an evolutionary epoch. A Darwinian leap which will trigger a merger of human beings and technology.


The first epoch was a union of Physics and Chemistry in the early days of the universe and information was represented as discrete units of mass or energy and coherent alliances between these two led to an order in the universe. In the second epoch of Biology, complicated structures such as molecules and atoms formed in unison with energy and mass and led to the formation of carbon atoms and biomolecules which led to the formation of replicating strands of biological information in DNA. The third epoch is Brains, where the DNA led to organisms

which can detect information from their surroundings with their own sensory organs and process and store that information in their own brains and nervous systems. The fourth epoch can be traced to man discovering the wheel, fire etc. rudiments of Technology, and the next 30,000 years. This is where we currently stand. Singularity, if it happens, will be the fifth epoch and a merger of human beings and technology. In the sixth epoch, the beings created by this merger will try to build planet-sized processing units to tap into the information processes in the universe. The universe wakes up to realize itself as a dynamic information system.

The fifth epoch will blur out the boundaries between technology and human beings. The new species is presumed to have some qualities of human beings with some virtual attributes that work in tandem with machines and AI.

Super Intelligent Robots

By Arkapravo Bhaumik

Excerpt from: From AI to Robotics: Mobile, Social, and Sentient Robots, Taylor and Francis, 2018