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Another breathless puff-piece for the Singularity is near cult — this time from Popular Mechanics. Ray Kurzweil reckons we'll merge with AI by 2045, transcend biology, live forever... etc etc . The same techno prophecy peddled for decades, repackaged as inevitability.
Meanwhile, the real threats of AI, mass surveillance, algorithmic control, synthetic media, weaponised misinformation aren't mentioned.
This isn’t a prophecy. It's a billionaire's fantasy masquerading as science.
#ai #singularity #kurzweil #futureshock #neuralink
popularmechanics.com/science/a

Popular Mechanics · A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 20 YearsBy Darren Orf

@chad @Gustodon
And to be clear they have as much chance of succeeding in their objectives as the computer scientists have of reaching the #singularity

If it happens at all, the cost and the reward won't have been worth it.

The difference between these charlatans and AI crowd is they don't get to monetise their failures and shove them down our throats. (Although all the recent explosions make me wonder if they aren't trying).

If I could short SpaceX like I do #Tesla - I would!

“But why are they slashing the budgets given that this is sort of the engine of productivity that all of them have benefited from and made their billions from? That's because they don't understand how the world works. They don't understand that this is the engine of productivity that they've benefited from and they also think that it's okay to sort of pull up the ladder behind them that they'll be okay if everything just collapses that their money will insulate them and that's not true either. So yeah, I mean, I don't want to say they're doing it because they're stupid, but I will say they're doing it because they do not understand how the world works or what the benefit of fundamental research is.”

From #TheNerdReich podcast with Adam Becker.

thenerdreich.com/scientist-des

The Nerd Reich · Scientist Destroys Elon Musk’s Mars Fantasy | "It's BS"Mars is hell. AGI is hype. Eternal life is a fantasy. Astrophysicist Adam Becker demolishes tech billionaire delusions—listen now.