{"id":9756,"date":"2014-01-08T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:19:06","slug":"the-singularity-promises-great-benefits-but-can-we-brave-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-singularity-promises-great-benefits-but-can-we-brave-the-risks","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity promises great benefits, but can we brave the risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET\/bio\/pelletier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Pelletier<\/a> \u2014 IEET<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 196px; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/>What can we expect when machines surpass humans in intelligence; a point in time that futurists predict could become reality by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>The concept for the Singularity goes something like this: researchers are convinced that technology will eventually supersede human intelligence creating an amazing world filled with \u2018smart\u2019 machines. These machines will not only defeat us in chess and games like Jeopardy, but will also drive cars, write books and replace humans in customer service, and one day, <a href=\"http:\/\/curiosity.discovery.com\/question\/robots-ever-be-self-conscious\">emulate consciousness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET\/more\/pelletier20140107\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Pelletier \u2014 IEET What can we expect when machines surpass humans in intelligence; a point in time that futurists predict could become reality by 2045. The concept for the Singularity goes something like this: researchers are convinced that technology will eventually supersede human intelligence creating an amazing world filled with \u2018smart\u2019 machines. These machines [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","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=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47312,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/47312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}