{"id":9601,"date":"2013-12-25T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9601"},"modified":"2013-12-25T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T17:05:51","slug":"ai-day-will-replace-christmas-as-the-most-important-holiday-in-less-than-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/ai-day-will-replace-christmas-as-the-most-important-holiday-in-less-than-25-years","title":{"rendered":"AI Day Will Replace Christmas as the Most Important Holiday in Less Than 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\" rel=\"author\">Zoltan Istvan \u2014 Huffington Post <\/a>Visionary; Philosopher; Author of bestselling novel \u2018The Transhumanist Wager\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For a few billion people around the world, Christmas is the most important and relished holiday of the year. It\u2019s the day with the most gift-giving, the most family get-togethers, the most religious activities, and the most colorful fairy tales that children and adults almost universally embrace with sacred fervor. For many nations, no other day comes close to being as special. For this reason, it seems almost unimaginable that another day \u2014 especially an unknown one looming on the horizon \u2014 will soon unseat Christmas as the most important day in the world. Nonetheless, for humanity, the course is set. The birth of an artificial intelligence equal or greater than that of human intelligence is coming. It\u2019s called AI Day. And once it arrives, it will rapidly usher in a new age.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the concept of a man-made intelligence matching or surpassing our own \u2014 technically called AGI (artificial general intelligence) or Strong AI \u2014 has been steeped in science fiction. Upon hearing the term AI, many people immediately think of the sentient computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s masterpiece film <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. However, what most people fail to grasp is that once AI becomes self-aware and joins with the internet, it could grow its intelligence thousands of times in just mere days, perhaps hours. Frankly, it could quickly surpass all measurements of intelligence that humans are even capable of monitoring and recognizing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Ray Kurzweil\u2019s estimate that we will achieve human-level Artificial General Intelligence by around 2029 is a reasonable guesstimate,\u201d says Dr. Ben Goertzel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/ai-day-will-replace-christmas_b_4496550.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoltan Istvan \u2014 Huffington Post Visionary; Philosopher; Author of bestselling novel \u2018The Transhumanist Wager\u2019 For a few billion people around the world, Christmas is the most important and relished holiday of the year. It\u2019s the day with the most gift-giving, the most family get-togethers, the most religious activities, and the most colorful fairy tales that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1500,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-trajectories","category-posthumanism","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}