MT.:Er, the point surely is - one billion computer USERS. If true, that is a
v.
big deal.
EL: Why? They're not scientists; not even programmers. Every texting
kid with a smartphone is a computer user.I'm mostly interested in online
harware which can be easily 0wn3d
for bootstrap purposes.
This is a forum, as I understand, about the relationships between computers
(& robots) present & future & their relationship with society. The above
remark exemplifies the narrow-mindedness that characterises a lot of
discussions here. Computers like all machines evolve to meet human
requirements, (incl. needs, demands, desires, dreams & capacities). There's
a symbiotic, interdependent relationship.
If you want to have some idea of how computers will and can evolve, you have
to have some idea of how human society will and can evolve. And it's
currently changing at an extraordinary rate, faster than ever before.
Computers change people in dramatic ways. Something as apparently simple as
Google changes everyone's nervous system. Everyone starts searching and
millions of religious people become religious "seekers."
A much more computer literate society and world will have a v. different
relationship to AI - it's much more likely, for example, to be impatient
with, than worried about, AI's rate of progress.
Speculations about future AI MINUS future society (which seems to be the
rule here) are pointless.
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