The State of the Singularity #2 from EnterVR

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The State of the Singularity #2

1 hour 5 minutes Posted Aug 15, 2016 at 11:14 am.

"Something like the Singularity is happening".

What is the Singularity?

We will become incapable to live without our smartphones. 37

What is holding back the progress of the technology?

Humans expect change to be linear.

Different paths to the singularity.

How do you get the human species to pay attention to the technological change around us?

Making humanity proactive about the rise of AI.

The machine economy is already here and our human systems are not ready for the amount of change this will bring about.

Technological unemployment is one of the defining issues of this generation.

Why Marc Andresseen is wrong about the machine economy.

Programmers will also see their jobs be replaced by software.

What happens when a sizeable proportion of people can't make a living?

Revolution is longer possible in the 21st century.

What will the balance of power look in our life times?

Creating an open movement that will equalize the balance of power through the acquisition and democratization of exponential tools.

Go learn Tensorflow!

Why universal basic income could fail.

No one has a good answer to the exponential problem of the machine economy.

Running out of your government quota of robot anal massages.

An open initiative to democratize cognitive enhancement.

What will we you do when computers "wake" up?

Open source AI has fatal vulnerabilities.

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The collapse of human civilization will be caused by our inability to adapt to the machine economy.

Thanks to James, Eriks , Maggie and Liz for being scholars, ladies and gentlemen of virtual reality.

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