{"id":186720,"date":"2024-04-03T20:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/as-the-matrix-turns-25-the-chilling-artificial-intelligence-ai-projection-at-its-core-isnt-as-outlandish-as-it-once-seemed"},"modified":"2024-04-03T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:28:50","slug":"as-the-matrix-turns-25-the-chilling-artificial-intelligence-ai-projection-at-its-core-isnt-as-outlandish-as-it-once-seemed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/as-the-matrix-turns-25-the-chilling-artificial-intelligence-ai-projection-at-its-core-isnt-as-outlandish-as-it-once-seemed","title":{"rendered":"As \u2018The Matrix\u2019 turns 25, the chilling artificial intelligence (AI) projection at its core isn\u2019t as outlandish as it once seemed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eV5qEPIG5is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>People like the veteran computer scientist Ray Kurzweil had anticipated that humanity would reach the technological singularity (where an AI agent is just as smart as a human) for yonks, outlining his thesis in \u2018The Singularity is Near\u2019 (2005) \u2013 with a projection for 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Disciples like Ben Goertzel have claimed it can come as soon as 2027. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/nvidia\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/nvidia\">Nvidia<\/a>\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang says it\u2019s \u201cfive years away\u201d, joining the likes of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/openai\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman and others in predicting an aggressive and exponential escalation. Should these predictions be true, they will also introduce a whole cluster bomb of ethical, moral, and existential anxieties that we will have to confront. So as <em>The Matrix<\/em> turns 25, maybe it wasn\u2019t so far-fetched after all?<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on tattered armchairs in front of an old boxy television in the heart of a wasteland, Morpheus shows Neo the \u201creal world\u201d for the first time. Here, he fills us in on how this dystopian vision of the future came to be. We\u2019re at the summit of a lengthy yet compelling monologue that began many scenes earlier with questions Morpheus poses to Neo, and therefore us, progressing to the choice Neo must make \u2013 and crescendoing into the full tale of humanity\u2019s downfall and the rise of the machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like the veteran computer scientist Ray Kurzweil had anticipated that humanity would reach the technological singularity (where an AI agent is just as smart as a human) for yonks, outlining his thesis in \u2018The Singularity is Near\u2019 (2005) \u2013 with a projection for 2029. Disciples like Ben Goertzel have claimed it can come as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186720","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}