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DrZaff t1_j221z2n wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What do you imagine the world will look like in 2050? by psychosil444

Think about how much has changed in the past year alone

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Lord_Nivloc t1_j223uz2 wrote

Think about how much has changed since 1900. I mean, gosh, the introductory level textbooks I had in high school barely scratched the surface.

Covid and Russia-Ukraine war are just a drop in the bucket.

AI will probably turn out to to be something big.

Fusion looks like it’ll see side spread adoption within 20 years, so that’s neat.

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EmPrexy t1_j224u0l wrote

Do you not feel like there’s a drop off point? Where progression starts to slow down at all?

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attjw t1_j2270ut wrote

Not with AI starting to do things we can't even comprehend. I believe AI will redesign the computer it's running on, make its own AI's better than we could, then quickly leave us in the dust as it advances well beyond what a great-apes mind can fathom.

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EmPrexy t1_j2276p1 wrote

AI is limited to the knowledge that is given to it by humans though, AI has not accomplished anything yet that humans can’t comprehend, nor is AI sentient at all

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attjw t1_j2289p5 wrote

AI is currently making models based on our knowledge of the universe of wormholes. It's untangling the complicated web of quantum physics, creating new proteins and medicines, redesigning cars and aircrafts, etc...
It's in its toddler phase at the moment, but it's already doing things we can BARELY comprehend in more scientific settings. It's only limited to human knowledge right now, but it won't be long at the rate it's advancing before it makes its own discoveries and builds off of them.
I don't believe AI is sentient yet, but it will reach a point within the next 50 years (probably sooner) where we'll have to start seriously considering whether it's sentient or not (first we need to define what it really means to be sentient).

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TheSecretAgenda t1_j22hkjm wrote

AIs have already developed their own languages to communicate with each other that humans don't understand and have been shut off as a result. This was several years ago.

AIs are going to discover things and humans are going to have no ability to understand how they did it. The literal Black Box.

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srasmus97 t1_j22cqmm wrote

Ai could feasibly design and run its own experiments, design new tools to measure the previously unmeasurable, and compile vast amounts of data to find truth.

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Lord_Nivloc t1_j22lbrw wrote

Sure! But we ain’t there yet

Medicine and AI in particular are just getting started

Space travel might have fallen off, but that’s mostly because we reached so far so fast

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