Topic: Will Bitcoin Lead to the SIngularity? - page 2. (Read 333 times)

Exactly, we always put technology too much in the centre and forget that humans are the essence of everything. Humans are creating the technologies and controling them. We can't let atrifical intelligence to prevale and dominate. It's true we are living in the digital society but we can't forget that is still run by humans for the humans.

This could become a big problem too. It could lead to the end of days where technology conquers human beings(Terminator) which is why rapid development of technology is not always a good thing in this aspect.

Constraints need to be applied at every stage to limit the power of developing technology.

What we are experiencing right now is a sample of what he says, and I am sure that in the future, there will be many more new technologies that will be invented.
Those technologies will help human to do multitasking and make human's life easy and simple.
We know that now AI has started to develop and it will grow soon. So it will help our jobs from the traditional way into the digitalizing way.

I don't get the point where you said technology doesn't develop. Then, how will you explain how internet started and immerged. From landline to cellular phone, from manual transaction to p2p transactions. Isn't this technological development? All things is possible that one-day due to artificial intellegence, man-power wouldn't be needed as what have been mentioned in the article. Some companies even had used technology to replace human since they are consistent and less likely to commit error than human does.

Technology is not organic but human is, technology does not develop but human do to me there will never be a point where technology will perform the role of human in development no matter the level of the artificial intelligent it most be program and created by human before it can operate. The blockchain is also developed and control by human such as the miners that harsh the various transactions.

In 1993, professor Vernor Vinge of San Diego State University, published a paper predicting a point in the near future where technology itself would be capable of creating greater-than-human intelligence. This point, Vinge characterized, would see large computer networks and their associated users “wake up” as superhumanly-intelligent entities. In such a scenario, technology would be capable of improving upon itself in such rapid succession, that from the purely biological perspective, it would be seen as an “intelligence explosion”. This future point in time at which technological development irreversibly changes the conditions of human civilization, has come to be known as ‘The Singularity‘.

“This change will be a throwing-away of all the human rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye — an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.

It’s fair to call this event a singularity. It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules, a point that will loom vaster and vaster over human affairs until the notion becomes a commonplace. Yet when it finally happens, it may still be a great surprise and a greater unknown.”

– Vernor Vinge, Technological Singularity

Due to the rapid progression of fantastically powerful computer networks, this point of no return, the technological singularity, now appears more accurate and imminent than ever. The bitcoin network, for example, has demonstrated exponential growth in total hashrate since it first came online in 2009.


The uniqueness of the bitcoin network, and the manner in which the blockchain verifies large quantities of data, creates the perfect application for artificial intelligence to make sense of communication patterns (transfers of value) which appear seemingly unrelated to the untrained eye. Artificial intelligence will be capable of performing fantastic analysis of the data time-stamped into the bitcoin blockchain. These analyses will give rise to astonishingly accurate predictions.

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