Home computing 2050

Tregg Smith

Any thoughts on what home computing will be like in 50 years? How about 100 years. Real time Google Earth for sure. Much more mind to computer interface. We might put something like a headset on that would read brain info. Artificial intelligence? Here's a quote from another post here- "To quote Bill Gates: "I've never doubtd in the magic of software". I am a firm believer that AI has to do mostly with the way the program is programmed and not in the number of transistors - actually the whole transistor argument is kind of laghuable, now that i have thought about it for...days and weeks. Hence, the whole question in my opinion is not: Will they become - but: is it wise to create them so smart? What are the real implications of computers destroying earth once we make them so smart? I think the chance for a dramatic collision between humans and AI is relatively big. It's not the safest bet...but...we won't be humans if we don't try

JaredJames

Really? Do you think privacy laws will allow that?
We already have that, it's not very good. It's not about reading "brain info", it's about tracking what the brain does (you think "move right" and the computer recognises it as the signal to move the item right etc).

There is a big difference between scanning for electrical activity in the brain and 'reading' thoughts and outputting them (I think of a flower, the computer can interpret it and show a picture of that thought).
A tricky one, unlikely in my own view.
Assuming we get AI (or just a computer system we can't stop, not necessarily AI) the implications of computers destroying earth would be, well, earth is destroyed.
The chance is "relatively big"? Based on what? So far we're not even close to AI, we don't even agree on what would constitute AI. Let alone create a machine capable of Terminator style antics.