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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:22

Will we merge with AI by 2029?

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And for those who can't keep up and are merely human and have not merged with AI, some of them may be kept around just for curiosity or because it's interesting in some way. But just regular old human beings aren't going to be very much use for these technologically evolved humanrobots, I guess, is how I would think of them. And I'm curious whether or not you've seen this documentary or you know, about The Singularity. Does this seem plausible to you?

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Rebecca Richardson
@RenGoblin · 0:57
He showed on Facebook where he had inserted this into his own hand at home. I'm not so sure about all this, but it definitely seems like a statue towards that kind of a theory. I don't know about 2029. That seems rather close, but I wouldn't discount the idea that it's a possibility sometime in the future
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:56

@RenGoblin

Oh, my gosh, can you please bring one of these friends as well, so I can talk to them and ask them questions? Because I have so many questions, and I would love to to hear their perspective. So if you think there's any chance of that happening, please let me know. Also, I agree with you, as far as it freaks me out
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Rebecca Richardson
@RenGoblin · 1:41
There is a cyclical thing to life and death, illness and mortality that if we were to take that away, in a sense, are we almost stripping away our own humanity? And I don't know, that just scares me on so many levels
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:32
Since then I've gone on to read his book Singularity is near, and also a lot of other books on the same topic, which is the progress of AI and how AI will outpace humankind. And what happens then? The one thing to know about Rikers Wild as he considers himself a futurist. He's had a pretty good track record for quite a long time of predicting where technology would be at what time
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:12
Granted, smartphones were very clunky and unusable in their first state, but fast forward right now, can you imagine life without a smartphone? So from that standpoint, we're always progressing and normalizing new technology that we are kind of scared of always and in many ways, actually, we are cyborgifying ourselves, right?
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:54
Hopefully this will be my last. Well, I was talking about how we might actually allow technology to invade our bodies and that that will usually be because of some major health benefits or things like, hey, my eyesight is failing. Can I get a replacement or I'm a diabetic? And I'd really like constant blood sugar monitoring. And there are a lot of situations like this that can persuade people to actually take on this technology just because it is so beneficial along these lines
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 4:05

@shammi

And it makes me wonder if our idea or definition of what constitutes human or humanity is just going to keep evolving along with how we are evolving in tandem with technology. I'm curious what you think about that, or if we are eventually just going to be and think of ourselves as cyborgs. That feels strange to me because I feel like when I think of Cyborgs, that it feels like such a differentiation from being a human. But yes
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:33
Hey, Rachel, thank you very much for studying this topic. I'm pretty sure you laid a honey pot trap for me and yeah, here I am. Well, you have a lot of questions you asked, and I'm gonna try it. There's a lot to to talk about, and I'm going to try and answer that. I don't think I can fit in once. Well, your first question, I think, was, how does humanity and evolution relate to technology?
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:46
And my fear is that with that arrogance, humans will basically want AI to solve all the problems we have caused, and they will think they are smart by laying very strict constraints around the AI. But if you really know how AI works, all the AI really is modeled after our brain and natural evolution, it will figure out a very indirect way to get rid of us, not because it sees us as a threat, because we would have asked it to solve the problems that we created
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:57
Now, the only way around this, in my opinion, is if you have AI, that things much more powerful, like far that out things you then is to employ that same power and try to merge with it so that you also have access to equal amount of power and see how it actually thinks and can totally become comfortable in the way it thinks. And personally, I think that is one of the main reasons why we really need to work towards merging ourselves or maybe find ourselves
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