The State of the Singularity #2

Time stamp and notes: 1:20 "Something like the Singularity is happening". 2:15 What is the Singularity? 4:30 We will become incapable to live without our smartphones. 37 5:37 What is holding back the progress of the technology? 9:12 Humans expect change to be linear. 10:43 Different paths to the singularity. 12:30 How do you get the human species to pay attention to the technological change around us? 15:00 Making humanity proactive about the rise of AI. 16:26 The machine economy is already here and our human systems are not ready for the amount of change this will bring about. 18:00 Technological unemployment is one of the defining issues of this generation. 20:00 Why Marc Andresseen is wrong about the machine economy. 23:00 Programmers will also see their jobs be replaced by software. 26:00 What happens when a sizeable proportion of people can't make a living? 27:00 Revolution is longer possible in the 21st century. 30:30 What will the balance of power look in our life times? 36:00 Creating an open movement that will equalize the balance of power through the acquisition and democratization of exponential tools. 39:00 Go learn Tensorflow! 45:00 Why universal basic income could fail. 49:00 No one has a good answer to the exponential problem of the machine economy. The collapse of human civilization will be caused by our inability to adapt to the machine economy. 53:00 Running out of your government quota of robot anal massages. 56:00 An open initiative to democratize cognitive enhancement. 59:00 What will we you do when computers "wake" up? 1:03:00 Open source AI has fatal vulnerabilities. Thanks to James, Eriks , Maggie and Liz for being scholars, ladies and gentlemen of virtual reality. Follow up with them with the links below: https://twitter.com/jamesblaha https://twitter.com/EriksStrals Song in the intro is by Enya. Please support the artist! Thanks for listening!