{"id":21432,"date":"2016-01-31T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-coming-leap-in-human-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:41","slug":"the-coming-leap-in-human-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-coming-leap-in-human-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"The coming leap in human intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-coming-leap-in-human-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting &amp; a perplexing viewpoint by this author on \u201cSingularity\u201d and AI in general. First, I believe folks have varying views on the word \u201cSingularity.\u201d This author believes it is when machines become smarter than humans. In my case; I see Singularity is when humans and machines become connected to all things; not necessarily when a machine becomes smarter than myself. Also, the author definitely is not open to exploring all the possibilities around AI; thank goodness all innovators do not have this same mindset.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Human-like robots are popping up everywhere. From the factory floor to product packaging and delivery. From restaurants to the battlefield. From patient care to camel racing. And countless other places. The driverless cars we talked about in this column only a few years ago can be seen on the road today. Our electronic devices are not only talking to us, they\u2019re beginning to understand what we need without even having to ask.<\/p>\n<p>All of this has led to rampant speculation about when the so-called \u201csingularity\u201d is going to happen. When machines become \u201csmarter\u201d than humans. Sorry to disappoint, but the ultimate brain isn\u2019t a future generation of IBM\u2019s Watson or some super-distributed artificial intelligence network like the fictional Skynet portrayed in the <em>Terminator<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n<p>The next leap in intelligence may actually be viewed as a step backward. That\u2019s because it\u2019s been around for as long as humans have inhabited the earth. Maybe even longer. It\u2019s a network more massive than Skynet, with trillions of nodes and innumerable connections. And it\u2019s not something \u201cout there.\u201d This recently discovered superbrain exists inside each and every one of us. Introducing \u2026 the <em>human microbiome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmworld.com\/Articles\/Column\/The-Future-of-the-Future\/The-coming-leap-in-human-intelligence-108638.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting &amp; a perplexing viewpoint by this author on \u201cSingularity\u201d and AI in general. First, I believe folks have varying views on the word \u201cSingularity.\u201d This author believes it is when machines become smarter than humans. In my case; I see Singularity is when humans and machines become connected to all things; not necessarily when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,64,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68654,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions\/68654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}