{"id":182234,"date":"2024-02-07T18:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/2054-part-iii-the-singularity"},"modified":"2024-02-07T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:22:43","slug":"2054-part-iii-the-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/2054-part-iii-the-singularity","title":{"rendered":"2054, Part III: The Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2054-part-iii-the-singularity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d witness advances like mind-uploading,\u201d B.T. said, and described the process by which the knowledge, analytic skills, intelligence, and personality of a person could be uploaded to a computer chip. \u201cOnce uploaded, that chip could be fused with a quantum computer that couples biological with artificial intelligence. If you did this, you\u2019d create a human mind that has a level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill incomprehensibly higher than any existing human mind. You\u2019d have the mind of God. That online intelligence could then create real effects in the physical world. God\u2019s mind is one thing, but what makes God <em>God<\/em> is that <em>He cometh to earth <\/em>\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When B.T. said <em>earth<\/em>, he made a sweeping gesture, like a faux preacher, and in his excitement, he knocked over Lily\u2019s glass of wine. A waiter promptly appeared with a handful of napkins, sopping up the mess. B.T. waited for the waiter to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t give me that look.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019d witness advances like mind-uploading,\u201d B.T. said, and described the process by which the knowledge, analytic skills, intelligence, and personality of a person could be uploaded to a computer chip. \u201cOnce uploaded, that chip could be fused with a quantum computer that couples biological with artificial intelligence. If you did this, you\u2019d create a human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}