Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is evolving every day‚ however this technology is erasing the future of mankind all together. An example of artificial technology diminishing our future in stories would be in “The Pedestrian”‚ “The Veldt”‚ and “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury. “The Pedestrian” shows the government diminished the entire police force to only one artificial intelligent police car which could not react rationally to Leonard Mead which was simply
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Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor‚ futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book‚ The Singularity is Near. In the film‚ Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the Technological Singularity‚ a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics‚ nanotechnology‚ and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine
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Reflective piece: Cogito ergo sum “Dr. Ziggler in your new book you talk about the singularity. Could you please describe for our listeners what that is?” “Tenrtry the singularity will be the time when AI will have figured out how to make themselves and us smarter. Once that happens the process will build on itself until the robots are smart enough to figure out how we can live forever.” “Is that possible?” The interviewer
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The Singularity: Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity‚ such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil‚ define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence‚ and argue that it is difficult or impossible for present-day humans to predict what a post-singularity would be like‚ due to the difficulty of imagining the intentions and capabilities of superintelligent entities .A good way to understand the singularity is to imagine explaining the internet to somebody living
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Questions for Discussion 1. Oryx and Crake includes many details that seem futuristic‚ but are in fact already visible in our world. What parallels were you able to draw between the items in the world of the novel and those in your own? 2. Margaret Atwood coined many words and brand names while writing the novel. In what way has technology changed your vocabulary over the past five years? 3. The game "Extinctathon" emerges as a key component in the novel. Jimmy and Crake also play "Barbarian
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Transhumanism is the term used in the belief that the human race can evolve beyond its mental and physical limitations that currently exist. This is definitely a difficult slippery slope of a belief. There are benefits for mankind that could emerge from these enhancements and also there are problems that could also emerge especially from an ethical standpoint. When discussing this topic several things come to mind. Do humans have the right to tamper with our genetic make up to create a new form of
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Technological Singularity and Transhumanism Versus The Matrix The movie “The Matrix‚” depicts a futuristic era in which computer based artificial super intelligence has significantly exceeded the potentials of human brain power. Bringing us into a world that is overrun by artificially intelligent computer based machines. Many of us may believe that the idea of such an event can only exist within a Sci-Fi film. However‚ the majority of also may not know about long lived scientific theories projecting
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As for our conclusion‚ we propose that any manipulations of Transhumanism should be evaded and potentially boycotted due to its potential to disrupt the entire status quo of the human demographic plane. We as humans have stayed as a collective division‚ despite our individual difference that has rifted us apart‚ exempli gratia‚ race‚ skin color‚ body structure. The only reason for such a phenomenon should be credited to the fact that our constructive mindsets are not much different from every single
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Transhumanism is the ultimate goal of eugenicists; the human will be improved far beyond normal human functioning. This will be achieved by merging with our greatest competition- technology. This will give will enable us to have “Self-directed evolution” (ʻVariations
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Transhuman Megalomania Transhumanism Definition: The belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations‚ especially by means of science and technology. Megalomania Definition: A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth‚ power‚ or omnipotence; an obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. Causes the afflicted to believe that they have great or unlimited power or importance. Transhuman
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