Artifical Intellegence (A.I.)

March 8, 2015 David Decoteau

So the header of the Journal section of this page warns you that from time to time, I'll just post stuff that I think it cool. This is one of those article.

Maybe the best, thought provoking article I've read in some time: so I just wanted to share it with you.

If I'm all about the outdoors and the various experiences that contribute to a good quality of life; how would I not be interested in something that would be a complete GAME CHANGER to everything we know to this point?

Here is the beginning of the article...

Imagine taking a time machine back to 1750—a time when the world was in a permanent power outage, long-distance communication meant either yelling loudly or firing a cannon in the air, and all transportation ran on hay. When you get there, you retrieve a dude, bring him to 2015, and then walk him around and watch him react to everything. It’s impossible for us to understand what it would be like for him to see shiny capsules racing by on a highway, talk to people who had been on the other side of the ocean earlier in the day, watch sports that were being played 1,000 miles away, hear a musical performance that happened 50 years ago, and play with my magical wizard rectangle that he could use to capture a real-life image or record a living moment, generate a map with a paranormal moving blue dot that shows him where he is, look at someone’s face and chat with them even though they’re on the other side of the country, and worlds of other inconceivable sorcery. This is all before you show him the internet or explain things like the International Space Station, the Large Hadron Collider, nuclear weapons, or general relativity. This experience for him wouldn’t be surprising or shocking or even mind-blowing—those words aren’t big enough. He might actually die.

Tim Urban