Not Long Ago A Gathering Of Scientists Asked: Will The Singularity Turn Us Into Gods Or End The Human Race?

Not Long Ago A Gathering Of Scientists Asked: Will The Singularity Turn Us Into Gods Or End The Human Race?



Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds — engineers from Google and IBM, hedge funds quants, and Defense Department contractors building artificial intelligence — were gathered in rapt attention inside the auditorium of the San Francisco Masonic Temple atop Nob Hill. It was the first day of the seventh annual Singularity Summit, and Julia Galef, the President of the Center for Applied Rationality, was speaking onstage. On the screen behind her, Galef projected a giant image from the film Blade Runner: the replicant Roy, naked, his face stained with blood, cradling a white dove in his arms. At this point in the movie, Roy is reaching the end of his short, pre-programmed life, “The poignancy of his death scene comes from the contrast between that bitter truth and the fact that...

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http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race

I kind of like to imagine their brains melting at the Brightness of His Appearing.
That is, unless they bump into Jesus on their way to usurping God's throne.

You know the saying 'youth is wasted on the young'.
Maybe this is 'wisdom is wasted on the intelligent'.