If only AI wasn’t accelerating so quickly.

There’s a very real chance the AI will be smarter than the average human in 10 years.

I mean... jet fuel is highly combustive. Jets explode when they crash. Any highly concentrated storage of energy (fuel tank, battery) is basically just another name for a bomb.

Mommy i'm scared

I typically just toss plastic since it usually ends up in a landfill anyway.

Canned or glass drinks only at my place lol

We can say with high confidence that it is not weeks away. Years, A maybe. Decades to centuries is probably more likely.

Good idea. I think the ubermensch should immediately start conquering the world and set up a 3rd Reich which will last 1000 years at least.

Ships and ports are ripe for operation without humans — but only if the maritime industry can work through the practical, legal and economic implications first.

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This sounds great until humans get involved.

Who watches the Watchmen indeed? Some animals are more equal.

I don't think so. What we are doing is creating incrementally more sophisticated algorithms that can operate faster than before on larger data sets than before. It is what we have had for quite some time just now on a bigger scale. The self-improvement is interesting but it's still just a dumb machine doing exactly what it is programmed to do with no capability to expand to something greater.

We currently do not understand how the incredibly complex human consciousness works so we cannot begin to imagine what it will take to someday replicate it. It's a hard problem that is stalled in many ways as evidenced by many competing theories that lack evidence to know which one is correct.

Can a chatbot feel like a human to the average person? Sometimes. Is it the next step to creating a real intelligence that can exceed its programming? Maybe in the way that transistors led to personal computers -- a small step on a very very long journey.

The replies you’re getting. They’re mostly nonsense and doom-bringing.

Eat cheeto! Civilize!

Can you show us where the article hurt you?

What do you mean?

The following submission statement was provided by /u/BernieEcclestoned:

>More than sixty scientists from prominent institutions are advocating for rigorous study into reflecting sunlight away from the Earth to mitigate the effects of climate change.

>Air pollution is currently “masking” as much as a third of the impacts of global warming, and as regulations around the world tighten, the amount of global warming will be “unmasked.”

>As the effects of climate change become more acute, pressure to use sunlight-reflection technologies will rise, so scientists argue we need international study now.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11do8h8/sunlight_reflection_solar_geoengineering_must_be/ja9sucr/

Geez, since when did this sub get overrun by quacks?

Tens of dollars a year? Damn they'll surely go bankrupt soon

In through the “out” door, you say? Watch your shoes, people, It’s already started!

We're getting closer no matter what we do.

But let's be real, most of what is called AI today existed in some capacity 10 years ago but nobody called it AI yet because it isn't. Just because an algorithm can be run fast enough at a low enough cost to be useful now doesn't make it AI.

Driving a forklift sounds a billion times cooler. Imagine if you could command a forklift army??!!

Im a gardener and technology has made my life as a gardener easier and government regulation of pesticides and fertilizers has made my knowledge set more valuable. It’s a lot of work but way better than sitting on a computer all day.

At least it shits out confidently wrong code. Unlike all of my offshore devs that assure me they will take care of something before I log back on; only to find they were stymied about 5 minutes into their shift by something they could Google and sat around all fucking day for me to do the needful.

there is a documentary (with a beautiful soundtrack): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQrNmFXtaE

Maybe I misunderstood your point. By “lock it up behind capitalist roadblocks,” I figured you meant ordinary people don’t benefit. Clearly everyone benefited from the free vaccines. And if the manufacturers earned a handsome profit along the way, I don’t really have a problem with that. I want drug companies salivating at the thought of getting rich by developing important new vaccines.

I’m also not troubled that companies “mine cancer for profits.” That’s another way of saying “earn money by saving people’s lives.” Better than drilling for oil or running a casino.

I agree medical bankruptcies are a problem. But I’m honestly not sure quite what to make of them. Bernie Sanders claims 500,000 medical bankruptcies per year. But in a nation of 330 million, that’s less than one-half of one percent of the population. So it’s not really evidence that most people aren’t getting cancer treatments.

Article says not quite the same. 3 mirrors of objects behind, rather than 4 when lensed by a black hole.

It's a sacrifice I have to make to build wealth for then to inherit. Hopefully, by then testosterone replacement therapy will be further perfected.