Sep 9, 2018 07:48 PM
Yes, it's crazy coloring books for teens & adults stuff resting in the magazine racks of waiting rooms at technological campuses. Similarly, in 1950, *Popular Mechanics* featured an article describing what the world would be like 50 years later: "[In 2000] nobody has yet circumnavigated the moon in a rocket space ship, but the idea is not laughed down." Sound judgment on the part of the author in not being seduced in futurology context by the derisive fantasy realm of sci-fi pulp and comic books of that era. The latter shrugging aside god-level complexities and challenges as if they were a stroll in the park.
https://news.cnrs.fr/opinions/is-transhumanism-a-sham
EXCERPT: . . . This obsession with AI has given rise to the most extravagant claims: Ray Kurzweil, high priest of the Singularity movement, has said that AI will let humans repair their fragile outer shell otherwise marked for decline, and better still, to fuse their minds with machines and leap into the arms of eternity. Will it be possible one day to upload a person’s brain to a machine? To do this, it will be necessary to fully understand how the brain works, and to elucidate the interindividual differences between the brains of distinct human beings. Artificial intelligence is still unable to "emulate" a device as complex, efficient and changing as the human brain. The greatest obstacle lies not in the progress of AI, but rather in the limits of our biological knowledge. Each individual’s brain is unique: but biology as yet does not have anything to say about the process of individuation of the brain that defines our own personal selves. Transferring the mind, emotions, critical faculties, humor and understanding of others, from the brain to a microchip to gain access to eternal life is the obsessive fantasy of a handful of megalomaniacs. Yes, machines may outperform humans and mimic intelligent behavior, but only in certain tasks and not across the board....
EXCERPT: https://news.cnrs.fr/opinions/is-transhumanism-a-sham
https://news.cnrs.fr/opinions/is-transhumanism-a-sham
EXCERPT: . . . This obsession with AI has given rise to the most extravagant claims: Ray Kurzweil, high priest of the Singularity movement, has said that AI will let humans repair their fragile outer shell otherwise marked for decline, and better still, to fuse their minds with machines and leap into the arms of eternity. Will it be possible one day to upload a person’s brain to a machine? To do this, it will be necessary to fully understand how the brain works, and to elucidate the interindividual differences between the brains of distinct human beings. Artificial intelligence is still unable to "emulate" a device as complex, efficient and changing as the human brain. The greatest obstacle lies not in the progress of AI, but rather in the limits of our biological knowledge. Each individual’s brain is unique: but biology as yet does not have anything to say about the process of individuation of the brain that defines our own personal selves. Transferring the mind, emotions, critical faculties, humor and understanding of others, from the brain to a microchip to gain access to eternal life is the obsessive fantasy of a handful of megalomaniacs. Yes, machines may outperform humans and mimic intelligent behavior, but only in certain tasks and not across the board....
EXCERPT: https://news.cnrs.fr/opinions/is-transhumanism-a-sham
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