For sure. A journeyman electrician would be knowledgeable enough to know how to do everything (edit: most things), but no one can know every code, it’s a continual learning process. If you have a question, the AI can cite the code and tell you what to do in plain language, then the electrician can look up the code that was cited, and read the language.

You are mistaken

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Yes you could do that... However, remember when satellite navigation was new and in the news there were drivers ending up in lakes and what not saying "sat nav told me to go straight on, so I did! Not my fault!" - if you do something electrically and it kills someone "chatgpt told me to do that!" is not an excuse.

There are books and online resources to look up every code, practice and how to implement it, an ai to assist might be fun but definitely don't rely on a chat model.

Tens of years or so, as opposed to a few hours to a few days with a thruster.

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Can an AI gain sentience? When we cross that threshold a lot of ethical questions are going to have to be asked as to what rights the AI will have

Is there Stem cell research on reviving peripheral limbs and nerves? Were there any results?

i mean, we are doing stem cell research, is that what you mean?

I know this isn't exactly what you mean, but AI is actually being used right now to help train AI. I think the OpenAI guys used it to supplement their human reinforcement learning.

Google Deepmind allows agents to compete against themselves in a type of natural selection process to produce AlphaZero.

Nvidia is using AI in limited capacity to design parts of it's latest chips.

So I know you probably mean on a whole different scale where the AI can take over the whole process of training itself, but in a limited way right now AIs already kinda are being used to build AI. And they are already speeding up progress because of these examples and more.

Lol sign me up too

find its email and ask it for some life exstension kit.

I feel the same way to be honest. It’s like when you watch a zombie movie and fool yourself you’d be a survivor too. When in reality most people are getting bitten.

That’s a good point about including sentience. That’s why when it happens people will debate endlessly about what is sentience anyway etc. for the sake of this argument I will say that an AI’s self awareness would probably look unrecognisable to us. But would have to include the AI realising it can do things and then choosing to do certain things without outside interference.

If Im not mistaken one of the aspects of The Singularity is VR that is indistinguishable from reality to the point where people can’t tell what is real anymore. We are pretty far from that considering VR thats totally indistinguishable would have to be patched right into your brain.

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'In the future' meaning whenever a robotics student decides to make it happen for whatever project. We've had robots that are more than capable of that kind of complex motion for a long time now.

Like sure it's not gonna be an industrialized machine making fabrics faster than a human feasibly ever could, but we have robots that allow surgeons to perform from across the country, and to perform operations that human hands are just not precise enough for.

My point is that this isn't a technology issue, it's that no one has been bored enough to figure it out yet.

honestly there's not much that i as an individual could do as my access to resources is insignificant and i just not smart enough to put myself on the benefitting side let alone the side that'll be propelled to the top of society by it.

i think i would just be relieved that the singularity is happening so soon because even if my access to the technology it creates is limited/non existent at least my dreams/ambitions go from impossible to possible.

Normally I'm more optimistic about things, but I agree here. We are too tribal as a species to bind together for something like this.

straight? it's nearly been a decade, how many decades do you want before you consider the possibility of bio-engineering babies? 2? 4? 7? eventually the health issues brought about by pollution will get much worse and the last generation to be impacted by them is going to blame everyone who was deliberately dragging their feet on this and they'll be right to do so.

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You are literally describing the Lightsail satellite experiment that went into orbit awhile back. It's meant to increase orbit using the pressure from the sun based off the angle of the sail, sort of like a wind sail. Just to keep you from wondering it actually works!

If we survive it, the singularity will probably be given a date in hindsight. However, i doubt that living though it will be an overnight change. I think some people are mistakenly including sentient AI as a requirement for the singularity. In such a scenario sentience could suddenly appear and infect advance systems round the world overnight.

I don't see why the singularity couldn't occur over a period of time without computers becoming sentient and then one day it seems to be everywhere. Gradually, then suddenly as Hemingway put it. The main requirement for the singularity is that the future becomes unpredictable.

I would argue that what we are seeing happening now in the AI sector qualifies as a symptom of the singularity having started. At this point it might be wiser to start thinking about ensuring a soft landing for yourself for whenever the carnage arrives at your occupation in the next X years.

I see your points, but I am more concerned about the unequal distribution of accessibility and regulation of AI. I believe that there is no turning back at this point, and that technology will continue to advance regardless of our concerns and actions. To mitigate these risks, we need to democratize accessibility, develop open-source code, and prevent large companies from making exceptions for themselves when pressuring governments to regulate AI more effectively.

Wealthy people will continue to own AVs for personal use. The rest will migrate to primarily manufacturer owned fleets as it gets cheaper than owning.