How much do you miss your phone when you leave it behind? What can we do to enhance human capabilities? How do we mitigate civilization risk of artificial intelligence?
- Human bandwidth output is less than a bytes/sec. Humans are limited to how much information they can output; how can we unlock that.
- A system can’t be intelligent until it has these three properties of; acting ->sensing ->comparing goal.
- We have created systems that rely on feedback mechanism in order to decide what to do next.
- During the world war 2 Norbert Wiener developed an anti-machine guns that automatically track and shoot down enemy airplane.
- Through his research he discovered the mathematics of control information theory – he envisioned how he would describe all systems that involved feedback.
- By rigorously defining feedback loops and control systems you can learn how to steer countless complex systems.
- Feedback loops are everywhere – imagine auto-pilot system – the system senses its current velocity and pitch and it then calculates how to maintain a steady flight given this information and adjusts its wing flaps and engine throttle accordingly – result a stable flight path maintained by constant feedback from the environment.
- Professor Wiener provided the math necessary to make countless phenomena more predictable and controllable – this helped neuroscientists study how your motor neurons can stabilize the movement of your arm.
- The development of modern artificial intelligence is credited to Wiener, he first theorize that all intelligent behavior was the result of feedback mechanisms that could possibly be simulated by machines.
- The first neural network in 1943 demonstrated that human brain could be modeled as a digital computer – humans as complex as we believe we are, we are cybernetic machines.
- As technology continues to improve, the world of the future will be an ever demanding struggle against the limitation of our intelligence.
- The world will become more complex as these improvements continue – as humanity reliant on machines grows we may begin using them more and more in our own bodies – becoming cyborgs.
- Cyborg – a shortening of cybernetic organisms – is a reference to modifications we might need to survive away from earth – a period defined by unprecedented human enhancement through technology.
- In a high-tech civilization – becoming a cyborg is likely to be mostly optional – there is no need to carry a phone system when i can wear an ear bud and have a phone.
- Necessity forces changes where stagnation occurs – in more stable or prosperous circumstances, one of the silver lining of economic recessions/wars/pandemics is that they can allow changes that would otherwise either take a very long time or never occur.
- Those changes aren’t always great ideas either, but it emphasizes how a civilization might have to choose to embrace more spartan approach to life, and in this case more cybernetic approaches – because they feel it is a necessary or ethical choice.
- Cyborg is a very wide zone of options – it might range from minor physical augmentation to massive brain augmentation that raises IQs or thinking rate by order of magnitude, it might be human-scale prosthetic or sub-cellular level nano-machines.
- The Cyborg Era is here—and it’s just beginning. While challenges abound, the possibilities are limitless. Our species, long defined by its tools, now stands at the precipice of becoming something new. Not less human, but perhaps more—augmented, empowered, and redefined.
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