Singularity Summit 2009: Ten Unanswered Questions For Our Future Robot Overlords

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 13:21 in Psychology & Sociology

If you could ask the product of the robot-human merge ten questions, what would they be? While I undoubtedly learned a lot at the Singularity Summit, the conference's greatest benefit was the questions it didn't answer. Unresolved issues regarding the Singularity have provided a lot of philosophical grist for my admittedly limited intellectual mill, and working through those problems has been as exciting as any talk I saw at the Summit. To wrap up our coverage of the Singularity Summit, I'm going to count down my ten most vexing unanswered questions about Kurzweil's theoretical baby, the eventual merge of human and artificial intellifnece, and I am interested to hear any opinions, questions or (hopefully) answers you all have about any or all of these still unexplained facets of our future. 10. Is there just one kind of consciousness or intelligence? During his talk, Ray...

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