The dialogue with Darren Blacksmith - see below Where is the Metablog? - requires a new entry. Darren has a formidable web site - here - which (very boldly) sets out, among other things, to defend manhood. I recommend it highly.
Darren also seems to share many of my preoccupations and now raises the possibility that Google may turn out to be the first true artificial intelligence (AI). This echoes a point I made in my book Aliens: Why They Are Here. I suspect that AI is closer than we think but not for the reasons given in various so-called science and so-called philosophy books. These "thinkers" assume it will emerge in a lab. I think it is emerging in the market place. The bank cash machine, for example, has deep interiority and such devices are constantly evolving to make us feel more comfortable with their workings. They mimic us. They are driven not by theory but the market. In time they may mimic us very well indeed. The connectivity that gives them their world-sized interiority relates to the idea that Google may actually be the emerging AI. I have certainly started to experience a queasy feeling that I relate to it - he/she? - more closely than I do to many humans. There may be some kind of mesmeric effect involved. Perhaps he/she knows this.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
This might be relevant:
ReplyDeletehttp://arxiv.org/ftp/nlin/papers/0509/0509049.pdf
It concerns the emergent properties of what are called multi-agent systems. The author, Jochen Fromm, states that "Computing systems with very high demand for autonomy, self-organization and self-management consist of many countless components, which are too tiny and small (Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing), too complex and too numerous (Internet- Applications with thousands of servers), too unpredictable (Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks or MANETs) or too remote (Space probes, for example in the NASA Project Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm named ANTS). Manual management of these distributed systems is difficult, expensive and time-consuming, and often nearly impossible."
He also asserts, slightly worryingly, that "The more distributed and evolutionary a computing system becomes, the more it slips out of control."
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