On Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 2:46:58 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 2:49 PM Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > There are all sorts of questions this brings up. I suppose it is >> inevitable, but it could redefine what is meant by being human. Human >> beings could end up as engineered beings for various purposes. > > > It's evolve or die, on average species only last about 5 million years and > I think biological humans will not come anywhere close to that figure and > have less than a century left, perhaps only a decade or two. In just in the > last year new developments in AI are coming so quickly it's hard to keep > up; this is the most astounding artificial intelligence yet: > I rather doubt CRISPR or AI technology or much else is going to do a lot to enhance our survival. Humans have assumed a purpose of converting everything we can get our hands on into trash. During the administration of Bolsonaro in Brazil a total area of Amazon rain forest equal to Kansas was destroyed. We are 8 billion ground apes exponentially rampaging out of control. That is what will kill us, and in the rather near future. AI systems that can generate word strings, or pseudo-art and so forth will have little or no influence on saving Homo sapiens from themselves. LC > > > Flamingo, DeepMind's New AI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOU6usZRJvA> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > fla > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/43230efd-56a9-41f3-ae58-4c8c503389c1n%40googlegroups.com.
