Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20100299299
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | This article provides reference points for predictions made in this futuristic technology. It's not here yet and whether it will be here is speculative |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Print Publication |
| Publication Title * | The Consciousness Condundrum |
| Author | John Horgan |
| ISBN | |
| Page Range | 36-31 |
| Medium | Journal article |
| Publication Date * | June 2008 |
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Excerpt Notably, singularity enthusiasts tend to be computer specialists, such as the author and retired computer scientist Vernor Vinge, the roboticist Hans Moravec, and the entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil. Intoxicated by the explosive progress of information technologies captured by Moore's Law, such singularitarians foresee a "merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence," as Kurzweil puts it, that will culminate in "immortal software-based humans." It will happen not wihtin a millenium, or a century, but no later than 2030, according to Vinge. These guys- and yes, they're all men - are serious. Kurzweil says he has adopted an antiaging regimen so that he'll "live long enough to live forever."
Specialists in real rather than artificial brains find such bionic convergence scenarious naive, often laughably so. Gerald Edelman, a Nobel laureate and director of the Neurosciences Institute, in San Diego, says singularitarians vastly underestimate the brain's complexity. Not only is each brain unique, but each also constantly changes in response to new experiences. Stimulate a brain with exactly the same input, Edelman notes, and you'll never see the same signal set twice in response. ... |
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This application is so riddled with 101 and 112 problems it seems silly to even be looking for prior art. Nevertheless, the referenced article is a commentary on the state of the art, as of June 2008. The kinds of things this inventor is referring to, in a rather oblique way aren't projected to arrive for decades and whether it will actually come to pass is extraordinarily speculative. Sevearl of the computer scientists mentioned in this article have published extensively in this area -- all in the nature of prediction rather than describing actual inventions. (See "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence", by Ray Kurzweil; "On The Singularity" by Vernor Vinge) ... see also Singularity University ... sponsored by Google, NASA and others
This application is so riddled with 101 and 112 problems it seems silly to even be looking for prior art. Nevertheless, the referenced article is a commentary on the state of the art, as of June 2008. The kinds of things this inventor is referring to, in a rather oblique way aren't projected to arrive for decades and whether it will actually come to pass is extraordinarily speculative. Sevearl of the computer scientists mentioned in this article have published extensively in this area -- all in the nature of prediction rather than describing actual inventions. (See "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence", by Ray Kurzweil; "On The Singularity" by Vernor Vinge) ... see also Singularity University ... sponsored by Google, NASA and others
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