I wrote the following reply before Matt's, but held off until now. I couldn't get into the Culture series for some unknown reason. His 'Iain Banks' books yes. Plus plenty of other authors; Huxley, Noon, Stephenson, Gibson, Hamilton, etc. Anyway, here's my main reply...
I've always known personal limitations. Being an optimistic introverted deep thinker and 'jack of all trades, and master of none'. In our current globally connected world. With a huge variety of conflicts. Decades witnessing rising levels of information bombardment, on-going currency and financial manipulation, proxy and conventional wars, climate and nature manipulation, and the interrelated aspects and changes that that has had to the planet and all that share it. Including a personal level of history for the conflicts and changes. A bachelor dedicating more than the average person to observing all this. I went from entertaining millions of people, to spending quite a few years thinking about how to help mankind. The shortening of peoples collective memory. New generations of people and how they differ. Everyone reading this, will within them invoke differing thoughts and connotations. Some similar to mine others opposing. Without face-to-face contact only so many words, and use of appropriate words/wording, can convey my thoughts to others. As some great people remind me, a 'one many army' never wins. But we all have an opportunity right now to read around topics and statements to discover a balanced opinion and work out relations to one's self, loved ones and environment. So, I imagine a day within my life time (45+ years on this planet so far) where all the technologies we're aware of coming together more. To evolve ways of living. To assist us to bring further associations and correlations together to form opinion and decisions. Now where have we heard that before ;) Hint: the curly bit of mammals brains, something 'neo' we all share. "Their's an app for that", point your 'smart' phone at a person speaking. And it looks back through current and historical information to determine whether they are telling half-truths and what the half-missing information is. Then form opinion one's self. Individualism versus collectivism duality is certainly a tricky balance. On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I am hoping for a future similar to the Culture series of science > fiction books, and we need serious machine intelligence for that to > happen. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Minds > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Takenori Sato <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > Thanks for reminding me of such a basic question. > > > > The root of curiosity about AI in my life is when I had an education to > > become an airline pilot(it may sound strange, but there is one such > public > > college in Japan). It was a huge shock that most of the fatal accidents > > since 1990 are caused by human(human error). Then, I actually have > realised > > the computer(AI) is a lot better controlling an aircraft when I got > > IFR/multi engine ratings. > > > > The theory, non-human flight is safer, have haunted me, and became one of > > the biggest reasons why I had changed my carrier. > > > > > > Today, I think it is great if AI can help elderly people spend better > life > > toward their ends. As we get older, some of our parts get worn out. Some > in > > our brains, and others in our devices. Some people say a car driven by an > > elderly person is more dangerous than a bear, but in the very near future > > we'll see autonomous cars in rural areas :) > > > > Thanks, > > Takenori > > > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:29 PM, cogmission (David Ray) > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Everybody, > >> > >> I always wanted to ask, why is everyone interested in this? And what > >> motivates us to do this? > >> > >> I'll start... > >> > >> My answer is here (http://www.cogmission.ai/about-the-author), but feel > >> free to link or answer in-line as you see fit? > >> > >> I'm interested in knowing some thoughts behind these interesting faces > in > >> our community... > >> > >> Cheers, > >> David > >> > >> -- > >> With kind regards, > >> > >> David Ray > >> Java Solutions Architect > >> > >> Cortical.io > >> Sponsor of: HTM.java > >> > >> [email protected] > >> http://cortical.io > > > > > >
