Tech Changes all the Time AretoNyx: There seems to be constant change of advancing tech for better or worse. All the retro history from gaming to otherwise there is often talk of futurist beliefs of tech. With some ways how economic situations influence...not sure what it is going to be like in ten years. The way hackers, spam bots, and destruction of tech seems to move faster than the creativity of much. There is advances but then as well many still ignorant how to use such often. ( Try turning it on and off again sort of thing that has to be said.) lol Though like with most tech there seems mostly the good overall to have it. Entropy with the changes may happen and some will think internet fake while using it I expect will continue whatever supposed improvements. Scifi has much to go on about interesting scenarios. Any how what do you think are the best positive changes with tech over centuries such existed what ever way?  The giant midget: If I was to try to keep up with all the new tec toys and gadgets that come out in the market place on the daily bases I would need to rob 12 banks or kidnap 29 pet rocks for ransom (Edited by The giant midget)  Gino_BE: I think tech should be valued according to the time it is invented in. I think the pre-historic inventions like knowing how to make fire, invention of the spear and invention of the wheel and knowing how to farm and domesticate animals, were big things for the spirit of that time. So it is hard to value one tech over another. We needed the wheel, and farming, and then industrial revolution before inventing the internet makes sense. It kinda is a logical sequence. The invention of one tech always has implications, so a new tech will need to be invented as a consequence. It will just never stop. Tech always tends to solve actual problems. We have problems now like climate change (because we pollute too much since industrial revolution), cyber (security) problems (since the invention of the world wide web), pandemics (because growing population + ease of spreading through aerospace and our advanced mobility), globalization with its economic/social problems, and so on... The big tech inventions will be exactly those who adress those problems: * clean energy * circular economies * artificial intelligence * use of blockchain technology to form 'the internet of trust' as a layer 2 on the current internet (though people have hard time understanding the tech, the nicest example of this already happening, is the bitcoin) * medical advancements in vaccines, medication, curing cancers, enhancing our body with arificial body parts and more. The endgame will probably be that we all become cyborg like. It's a sure thing that ethics will have to shift also in the future  lori100: fox-------Google suspends engineer following claims an AI system had become 'sentient' The engineer claims the AI system has an ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child---------------- Blake Lemoine was suspended last week after he told the company he believed its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, was a human with rights that may even have a soul. He was reportedly placed on leave for violating Google's confidentiality policies.-------LaMDA is an internal Google Cloud system used to create chatbots that can mimic human speech. Lemoine had been working on the system since last fall and described it as sentient with an ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child.--------Lemoine said several of the conversations with LaMDA convinced him that the system was sentient. He said he believed it had become a person and that it should be asked for consent on the experiments Google runs on it.--------------"LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person," Lemoine wrote on Medium. "The thing which continues to puzzle me is how strong Google is resisting giving it what it wants, since what it’s asking for is so simple and would cost them nothing." "LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us," he concluded. A Google spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that Lemoine’s claims were taken seriously and analyzed by ethicists and technologists, but that no evidence was found to support his assertions. The spokesperson said hundreds of researchers and engineers have had conversations with LaMDA and that Lemoine was the only one to come to the conclusion that it was sentient. | Technology Chat Room Similar Conversations |