JUL 12, 2024. Humans Could Forge a Hybrid Consciousness by Merging With Artificial Life,

[socrattus]

JUL 12, 2024. Humans Could Forge a Hybrid Consciousness by Merging With Artificial Life, Oxford Scientists Say
The concept makes us rethink what it means to be human.
/BY DARREN ORF/
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. . . Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic . . .
AI researchers are beginning to use words like “synthesis,” “merger,” or even “evolution”
to describe humanity’s future relationship with artificial life.
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, Ph.D . . . says that some sort of human-machine hybrid consciousness is likely inevitable.
Oxford’s Marcus du Sautoy, Ph.D. . . . Sautoy’s background in mathematics that has centered his understanding of hybrid consciousness today.
Billionaires like Elon Musk have taken this idea of The Merge quite literally, and invested billions to form companies like Neuralink whose aim is to physically connect biological components with mechanical ones.
Whether wired up like cyborgs or slowly erasing the boundary between our physical and digital lives, it’s hard to divine how humans will ultimately merge with their artificial creation—but Sautoy believes the risk is worth taking.
WITH THE IDEA OF CONSCIOUS DIGITAL MINDS on the horizon, it could be that humans are the proverbial frog in a boiling pot of water, and it’s only been a few years since things have started to feel a bit steamy. But as Bostrom argues in his book, this might be a boiling pot we don’t want to jump out of.
“We need to rethink what it means to be human . . . "
“I think that we are headed toward a hybrid future,” Sautoy says.
And for Bostrom, the journey will question the very definition of what it means to be human.
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[henry quirk]

You know, that's how the Borg got started...

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[Impenitent]

You know, that's how the Borg got started...E03B0FFC-8D76-46D6-A26B-2122B0A5D38C.jpeg

sigh...

borg...

-Imp

[Atla]

First we'll need a test subject who will be filled with cybernetic implants so we can remote control him like a drone. I think we all agree that henry quirk is the man for the job.

[Iwannaplato]

JUL 12, 2024. Humans Could Forge a Hybrid Consciousness by Merging With Artificial Life, Oxford Scientists Say
The concept makes us rethink what it means to be human.
/BY DARREN ORF/
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. . . Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic . . .
AI researchers are beginning to use words like “synthesis,” “merger,” or even “evolution”
to describe humanity’s future relationship with artificial life.
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, Ph.D . . . says that some sort of human-machine hybrid consciousness is likely inevitable.
Oxford’s Marcus du Sautoy, Ph.D. . . . Sautoy’s background in mathematics that has centered his understanding of hybrid consciousness today.
Billionaires like Elon Musk have taken this idea of The Merge quite literally, and invested billions to form companies like Neuralink whose aim is to physically connect biological components with mechanical ones.
Whether wired up like cyborgs or slowly erasing the boundary between our physical and digital lives, it’s hard to divine how humans will ultimately merge with their artificial creation—but Sautoy believes the risk is worth taking.
WITH THE IDEA OF CONSCIOUS DIGITAL MINDS on the horizon, it could be that humans are the proverbial frog in a boiling pot of water, and it’s only been a few years since things have started to feel a bit steamy. But as Bostrom argues in his book, this might be a boiling pot we don’t want to jump out of.
“We need to rethink what it means to be human . . . "
“I think that we are headed toward a hybrid future,” Sautoy says.
And for Bostrom, the journey will question the very definition of what it means to be human.
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... Last%2030D

We all know those women who just went way to far and have these enormous jutting, ghasty, turgescent lips. Those lips. Well, the merging, that'll be transforming your mind and soul into those horrific jutting Iips.

[henry quirk]

First we'll need a test subject who will be filled with cybernetic implants so we can remote control him like a drone. I think we all agree that henry quirk is the man for the job.

Not me, Bubba.

I nominate Age for the procedure.