I think you should try to consider one possible thing:
In your story, Engelbart failed to produce the UberTool.
Anyway, looking around and seeing the progress since 1970, I would say, he PRETTY MUCH DID. He was not alone and we should rather speak about technology that succeeded, but what else is all the existing computing infrastructure, internet, Google etc.. than the ultimate UberTool, augmenting human cognitive abilities?
Do you think we could keep the Moore’s law going without all this? Good luck placing those two billions transistors of next generation high-end CPU on silicon without using current high-end CPU.
Hell, this blog would not even exist and you would not have any thoughts about friendliness of AI. You certainly would not be able to produce a post each day and get comments from people all around of world withing several hours after that—and many of those people came here using Google ubertool because they share interest in AI, never heard about you before and came back only because all of this is way interesting :)
Actually, maybe the lesson to learned is that we sort of expect a singularity moment as single AI “going critical”—and everything will change after that point. But in fact, maybe we already are “critical” now, we just do not see the forest because of trees.
Now, when I say “we”, I mean the whole human civilisation as “singleton”. Indeed, if you consider “us” as single mind, this “I” (as in inteligence), composed of humans minds and interconnected by internet, is exploding right now...
I think you should try to consider one possible thing:
In your story, Engelbart failed to produce the UberTool.
Anyway, looking around and seeing the progress since 1970, I would say, he PRETTY MUCH DID. He was not alone and we should rather speak about technology that succeeded, but what else is all the existing computing infrastructure, internet, Google etc.. than the ultimate UberTool, augmenting human cognitive abilities?
Do you think we could keep the Moore’s law going without all this? Good luck placing those two billions transistors of next generation high-end CPU on silicon without using current high-end CPU.
Hell, this blog would not even exist and you would not have any thoughts about friendliness of AI. You certainly would not be able to produce a post each day and get comments from people all around of world withing several hours after that—and many of those people came here using Google ubertool because they share interest in AI, never heard about you before and came back only because all of this is way interesting :)
Actually, maybe the lesson to learned is that we sort of expect a singularity moment as single AI “going critical”—and everything will change after that point. But in fact, maybe we already are “critical” now, we just do not see the forest because of trees.
Now, when I say “we”, I mean the whole human civilisation as “singleton”. Indeed, if you consider “us” as single mind, this “I” (as in inteligence), composed of humans minds and interconnected by internet, is exploding right now...