What is the Singularity

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• What is the Singularity?

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The Singularity

• is a point in time
• where there is no turning back
• from an inevitable
• human-machine civilization
• where our experiences shift from
• real reality to virtual reality
• and where
• our intelligence becomes nonbiological and
  trillions of times more powerful.

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• What is the
• Red Cloud
• ?

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Jim DeLeo and I are on the Perricone diet.
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You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
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You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
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You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
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The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend
Biology

• by
• Ray Kurzweil

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The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend
Biology by Ray Kurzweil

• Chapter 1. The Six Epochs
• Jim DeLeo
• Chapter 2. A Theory of Technology Evolution The
  Law of Accelerating Returns
• Kim Thompson
• Chapter 3. Achieving the Computation Capacity of
  the Human Brain
• Mo Al-Ubaydli
• Chapter 4. Achieving the Software of Human
  Intelligence How to Reverse Engineer
• the Human Brain
• Ben Goertzel
• Chapter 5. GNA (Genetic Nanotechnology
  Robotics) Three Overlapping Revolutions
• Carl Leonard
• Chapter 6. The Impact
• Melanie Swan

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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for
  the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
• The impending singularity is transforming
  everything from sexuality to spirituality.
• Singularity is the time when human life will be
  irreversibly transformed.
• A singularitarian is one who understands the
  singularity.
• Technology is expanding exponentially.

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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• Lake owner and Gary Kasparov
• Within several decades information-based
  technologies will encompass all human knowledge
  and proficiency
• Weakness and strengths of brains and computers
• Our version 1 biological bodies
• Much human thought is derivative, petty and
  circumscribed.

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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• The Singularity will
• allow us to transcend todays limitations of
• our bodies and brains
• give us more power over our lives
• put our mortality into our own hands
• provide understanding of human thinking
• expand the reach of human thinking
• give us a nonbiological portion of our
  intelligence that will be trillions of trillions
  of times more powerful than unaided human
  intelligence

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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• Post-Singularity, there will be no distinction
  between human and machine or between physical and
  virtual reality.
• Ours is the only species that inherently seeks to
  extend its physical and mental reach beyond
  current limitations.
• Technological change is exponential.
• Examples of exponential progress - Transcribing
  human genome and internet expansion.

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where exponential growth becomes noticeable
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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• Reader Wont radical life extension result
  in overpopulation and exhaustion of limited
  resources?
• Ray K Radical wealth creation from
  nanotechnology and strong AI will offset this.
  For example, nanotechnology-based manufacturing
  will be capable of creating any physical product
  from inexpensive raw materials and information.

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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• First we build the tools, then they build us.
• - Marshall McLuhan
• The future ain't what if used to be.
• - Yogi Berra

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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• Evolution is a process of creating patterns
• of increasing order.
• Evolution works through indirection.
• in (Indirection is the ability to
  reference something
• using a name instead of the value
  itself. The
• simplest form of indirection is the
  act of manipulating
• a value through its address. )
• Evolution works through indirection by creating
• a capability and then using that capability
  to
• evolve the next stage (bootstrapping).

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Time
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Chapter 1. The Six Epochs

• The Six Epochs
• 1. Physics and Chemistry
• 2. Biology and DNA
• 3. Brains
• 4. Technology
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with
• Human Intelligence
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up

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The Six Epochs
The Singularity starts here in several decades.

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs
The Singularity starts here in several decades.

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up- dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Six Epochs
The Singularity starts here in several decades.

• 1. Physics and Chemistry information as
  patterns
• 
  of matter and energy
• 2. Biology and DNA carbon based life
  originates
• 3. Brains pattern detection, memory,
  abstraction
• 4. Technology brain size computer
  capacity as
• enablers of
  extending intelligence
• 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human
  
• Intelligence human/machine civilization
  when
• brain limitations
  are overcome
• 6. The Universe Wakes Up - dumb matter
• 
  becomes intelligent

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The Singularity

• Greater than human intelligence
  (ultra-intelligence will drive progress.
• Singularity unique event with singular
  implications.
• Term adapted from math (e.g. y 1/x) and
  astrophysics (black holes)
• Singularity here means rupturing the fabric of
  human history.

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The Singularity involves 35 principles

• 7. Computers will combine strengths of human
• and machine intelligence.
• 8. Human intelligence pattern recognition
• 9. Machine intelligence memory and recall
• 10. Nonbiological intelligence fast, accurate,
  and untiring
• 11. Machines can share knowledge at high speeds.
• 12. Machine and human downloading.
• 13. Machine speed.
• 14. Machines will master all Internet knowledge.
• 17. Machine intelligence unconstrained by
  biological
• limitations.

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The Singularity involves 35 principles

• 19. Machines will design and engineer technology
  as
• humans do now.
• 20. We will be able to reengineer all of the
  organs and
• systems of our biological bodies and
  brains to be
• vastly more capable.
• 21. Machines will not be limited like brains
  are.
• 22. Machines will use ultra fast 3-D molecular
  circuits.
• 24. Machine intelligence will iteratively
  improve its own
• design.
• 26. Nanotechnology will manipulate physical
  reality at the
• molecular level.

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The Singularity involves 35 principles

• 27. Molecular sized nanobot robots.
• 28. Billions of nanorobots in the capillaries of
  the brain
• will vastly extend human intelligence.
• 29. The nonbiological portions of our
  intelligence will
• ultimately predominate.
• 30. Nanobots will reverse pollution.
• 31. Nanobots called foglets will manipulate
  image and
• sound waves.
• 32. Machine intelligence will understand
  emotional
• intelligence.

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The Singularity involves 35 principles

• 33. Virtual experiences will win out over real
• experiences.
• 34. In virtual reality we can be a different
  person to
• ourselves and to one another.
• 35. Intelligence will travel at the maximum
  speed that
• information can travel until
  intelligence saturates the
• universe.
• 36. The destiny of the universe is to become
  saturated
• with our intelligence.
• 37. The time it will take for the universe to
  become
• intelligent may or may not be limited
  by the speed
• of light.

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• The fact that most people
• cannot comprehend all this
• with our present level of
• understanding is one
• reason it is called
• The Singularity.

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Aspects of the Post-Singularity Era

• Intelligence will represent human civilization
  which is already a human-machine intelligence.
• Future machines will be nonbiological humans.
• Most intelligence will be nonbiological.
• This intelligence will be trillions of times more
  powerful than human intelligence.
• Nonbiological forms derived from biological
  design.
• The wish to remain unenhanced will be honored.

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A Dialogue / Play

• Cast of Characters
• Molly Circa 2004
• Ray Kurzweil
• George Circa 2004
• Charles Darwin
• Ned Ludd
• Timothy Leary

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• Molly Circa 2004 If I stay biological Ill be
  using up all
• this precious
  matter and energy in
• a most
  inefficient way.
• Ray Kurzweil A million e-mails foglets
  (robots
• the size of blood
  cells).
• George Circa 2004 We will have virtual
  assistants.
• Charles Darwin Machine intelligence should
• design its next
  generation.
• Ned Ludd Our destiny is to become
  contented
• pets but not free
  men.
• Timothy Leary So subjective time would
  become
• expanded.

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Two Final Thoughts

• Virtual assistant suggests enhanced
  relationships by humans becoming enhanced.
• Individuals may choose to maintain their original
  biological heritage but the incentive to become
  enhanced will be so strong it may be impossible
  to resist.
• SNAKE Just one bite, Eve.
• EVE Sure. Why not?

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Two Final Thoughts

• Virtual assistant suggests enhanced
  relationships by humans becoming enhanced.
• Individuals may choose to maintain their original
  biological heritage but the incentive to become
  enhanced will be so strong it may be impossible
  to resist.
• SNAKE Aw, just one bite, Eve.
• EVE Sure. Why not?

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One bite of that gets you a zillion bytes on a
MacIntosh!
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Intelligent Universe
Enlight- enment
Current Reality
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Intelligent Universe
Enlight- enment
Current Reality
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The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend
Biology by Ray Kurzweil

• Chapter 1. The Six Epochs
• Jim DeLeo
• Chapter 2. A Theory of Technology Evolution The
  Law of Accelerating Returns
• Kim Thompson
• Chapter 3. Achieving the Computation Capacity of
  the Human Brain
• Mo Al-Ubaydli
• Chapter 4. Achieving the Software of Human
  Intelligence How to Reverse Engineer
• the Human Brain
• Ben Goertzel
• Chapter 5. GNA (Genetic Nanotechnology
  Robotics) Three Overlapping Revolutions
• Carl Leonard
• Chapter 6. The Impact
• Melanie Swan