Singularity and the future of AI and Blockchain technology

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Are we living in a simulation? Elon Musk thinks so. He is one of the top South African born people on the planet at present, leading Spacex Falcon rocket production. His rockets travel to the ISS International Space Station now. And he is building the Tesla electric car. Way to go Elon.

But are we already living in a simulation by some AI that has already been designed? I wonder! At this time in history we are making great strides forward in AI. Even further than that is AGI Artificial General Intelligence, which means the computer is way smarter than the human who developed it. It has more "general" intelligence, implying it knowledge about everything, not just the one specific task most AI computer programs are designed for.

2020 will potentially see the time in history when our hindsight becomes lucid. But jokes aside, machine learning is here and it is taking over slowly but surely. The Singularity is on the way, when all computers are connected and all items have computers in them and they are all talking to each other via 5G. As we build better machines, the machines will learn how to code themselves, teach themselves and repair or build themselves. We will become obsolete, as a tipping point is reached and AI becomes more intelligent than us. What could go wrong.........?

A lot could go wrong, according to Elon Musk who is on the forefront of today's tech. He is a rocket scientist after all, and was a genius from childhood, a child prodigy. So his words are based on experience and learning. Dr Ben Goertzel of the new cryptocurrency project SingularityNet is more positive about AI though. So there may be a valuable side to AI in time to come. Already it is helping us. Usually the military get to use or research cutting edge tech first, but private researchers are also producing valuable research to take AI forward as our servants and not our masters.

We have probably all seen dystopian sci-fi movies of a future at risk of a rogue AI. We live in uncertain times, much like the time gunpowder came from China to the west, or human flight. The military who had the tech first tended to dominate the others and the global map shifted its borders as a result. A similar thing could happen now with the new tech race occurring.

President Putin of Russia accurately said it would be the nation who takes the lead in AI that will dominate the next coming decades. We are currently at the "narrow" AI phase but will move to AGI and then to super AGI in time, leading to a post-singularity supermind in years to come. Sophia is the first step - "she" is a robot who has already been recognized by Saudi Arabia as the first ever non-human to gain "citizenship" of a country.

Humanoid robots - with compassion ideally - will create an interesting new era, and in decades many jobs will be obsolete, like cleaning, waitrons, driving, even law, medicine, secretarial, will all become obsolete for humans. We will have newfound leisure time. Do we know what to do with it? It may be a messy transition for a while.

At this time we will see UBI universal basic income being introduced, where work and jobs are less important, at least in the first world. This is being propounded by presidential hopeful candidate in USA, Andrew Yang, but who will give a UBI to those in the third world? Will it be controlled by the IMF, or World Bank? Human well-being could take some turns for the better or the worse, depending on where you are or how fast AI and UBI emerges.

Overall it will require an uplifting of human consciousness with more compassion and less tribalism and ego. We are all humans, and as robots emerge this should become evident and important. Humanity means being humane. The danger is that humans could become more irrelevant not more important, and that could be a cause for concern, as AI takes over the labor. Let's hope that humanity keeps up with AI technological innovation in the coming years.

They once said that OS open source would never work, but now we see that it does. Free open source is huge on the internet, like Linux for example. Free computer software for all can exist alongside corporate commercial products like Windows and Apple. So we can have a harmonious human-friendly design if we choose.

Everything is correlated, there is synchronicity, as Carl Jung described it, everything is already connected. This will increase with AI and the IoT, the Internet of Things. Ideally decentralized networks will come to the fore simultaneously to compete with the other giants. Blockchain and Bitcoin will aid the masses too, so forward with the revolution. Curiously even Bitcoin may become dated and improved by other decentralized platforms that are more efficient, so keep learning, it's a lifetime project.



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Hi @julianhorack

Every step that man takes we see that IA takes the lead, another aspect that I see now is that man is becoming dependent on IA.

While it is true when you say or talk about science fiction movies we are in an alternate world I say that if it is possible that this parallel world is already working and right now.

Yours.
@Lanzjoseg

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Thank you for your reply @lanzjoseg and @project.hope. Let's see where AI takes us in coming years.

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Dear @julianhorack

Would you mind if I take few minutes of your time?

Together with few core members of project.hope team - we'te trying to promote our recent publication: an article explaining economy behind our non-profit community project build on STEEM blockchain.

Perhaps I could ask you to spare few minutes and check it out and share your feedback with me.

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ps.2.
HAPPY NEW YEAR :) Hopefully 2020 won't be as scary as many expert are predicting.

Cheers,
@crypto.piotr

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Unfortunately the video I linked to this post has just been removed in the latest recent Youtube crypto purge. It was an interview with one of the most brilliant minds in AI. Youtube has lost its way thanks to some ominous influence or agenda.

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