#robotics
#robotics
Originally shared by Jesse Powell
A confluence of g+ conversations has just blown my mind. Conclusion: Robots + cloud robotics + AI + Internet of Things (IOT) = Godlike beings roaming our Earth sooner than we thought possible.
We humans are blinkered fools sometimes. Having grown up on a diet of low budget scifi movies and TV, we tend to conceive of robots as mechanical men - a walking, self-contained unit of autonomy. In fact, robots are much more likely to be like angels - powerful creatures that have seemingly magical abilities and are always in touch with the grace of god (a universal AI).
It all started with Gideon Rosenblatt 's post about Google buying Nest. I commented that Google will likely being investing heavily in IOT companies in part because it will make their robotics much more capable -- a robot receiving input from myriad IOT sensors will better navigate and interact with its world. Google knows that and is acting accordingly.
Then throw in the fact that Googlebots will be able to supplement their processing and AI by offloading some of the load to the cloud (just like your android phone offloads some of its voice recognition and Google Now duties to the cloud). This means that Googlebots will not only have access to more sensory information (via the IOT), but also have processing power/AI that increases exponentially through time. Wow. Powerful.
But here's the crucial part I was missing, the part where my jaw dropped. The combined experience of all individual robots will be networked, allowing the experiencs of one robot on one side of the earth to contribute to actions of another robot halfway around the world. Instantaneously. Networked experience (aka "culture") is what gave us humans our edge. We taught each other how to make pointy sticks to defend ourselves against tigers. We taught each other how to make fire. After many, many centuries, we taught each other how to make a silicon fab and make computers. Culture, combined experience, is what got us where we are today. Maintaining and advancing culture, however, is hard work for humans because our communications and I/O systems are so inefficient. It takes decades for an individual to become an expert in a field (aka "to learn from the combined knowledge of all of humanity"). Now robots will be able to speed this process up a million-fold. This changes everything.
It will still take years for Google to build this capability out, but it's coming. Robots will become angels. Hold onto your hats.
ht David Pearce for posting the linked article.
ps Yonatan Zunger pls give me heads up when I can expect a google angelbot to show up at my door and bestow grace upon me.
http://goo.gl/s8ZoDN
Originally shared by Jesse Powell
A confluence of g+ conversations has just blown my mind. Conclusion: Robots + cloud robotics + AI + Internet of Things (IOT) = Godlike beings roaming our Earth sooner than we thought possible.
We humans are blinkered fools sometimes. Having grown up on a diet of low budget scifi movies and TV, we tend to conceive of robots as mechanical men - a walking, self-contained unit of autonomy. In fact, robots are much more likely to be like angels - powerful creatures that have seemingly magical abilities and are always in touch with the grace of god (a universal AI).
It all started with Gideon Rosenblatt 's post about Google buying Nest. I commented that Google will likely being investing heavily in IOT companies in part because it will make their robotics much more capable -- a robot receiving input from myriad IOT sensors will better navigate and interact with its world. Google knows that and is acting accordingly.
Then throw in the fact that Googlebots will be able to supplement their processing and AI by offloading some of the load to the cloud (just like your android phone offloads some of its voice recognition and Google Now duties to the cloud). This means that Googlebots will not only have access to more sensory information (via the IOT), but also have processing power/AI that increases exponentially through time. Wow. Powerful.
But here's the crucial part I was missing, the part where my jaw dropped. The combined experience of all individual robots will be networked, allowing the experiencs of one robot on one side of the earth to contribute to actions of another robot halfway around the world. Instantaneously. Networked experience (aka "culture") is what gave us humans our edge. We taught each other how to make pointy sticks to defend ourselves against tigers. We taught each other how to make fire. After many, many centuries, we taught each other how to make a silicon fab and make computers. Culture, combined experience, is what got us where we are today. Maintaining and advancing culture, however, is hard work for humans because our communications and I/O systems are so inefficient. It takes decades for an individual to become an expert in a field (aka "to learn from the combined knowledge of all of humanity"). Now robots will be able to speed this process up a million-fold. This changes everything.
It will still take years for Google to build this capability out, but it's coming. Robots will become angels. Hold onto your hats.
ht David Pearce for posting the linked article.
ps Yonatan Zunger pls give me heads up when I can expect a google angelbot to show up at my door and bestow grace upon me.
http://goo.gl/s8ZoDN
Jesse Powell is talking as if being able to create and use internet is some sort of noble epitome in human evolution, even though democracy is a farce world wide and millions die hungry, slave labor is still alive and now feeding west and America, while American dollar and western banks are still robbing entire Human race.
ReplyDeleteBill DeWitt thanks for the reference! I guess that is one way it could play out. Though I did not mean to imply that future robots would necessarily be good, or intending good, when I used the word angel. They might be indifferent or even hostile, AI God forbid! Seriously, I meant their vastly superior perceptions, intellect, abilities, and connection to universal consciousness will make them seem so godlike to us monkeys that some people might even end up worshipping them. I just finished Ian tregellis' new novel, Something More Than Night, btw, and it probably was what prompted me to chose the word "angel".
ReplyDeleteJesse Powell I mostly agree with the progress of "robots" - meaning computer intelligence, however, I don't see a division from humans, but a more transhumanist merger. For instance, I should be able to post this to your brain where you can think it if you want to, instead I have to type it to G+
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