In then science fiction movie The Terminator 2, John Connor prevents an assassination attempt on a computer scientist when he reads “There is no fate but what we make” etched into a bench. His mother intended to stop the development of quantum computing that inevitably will result in a doomsday end game.

Our destiny with Artificial Intelligence is our fate, computers with artificial intelligence could come to dominate the earth. Our ultimate fate with AI however, is our choice. These are accepted facts by world renown geniuses Stephen Hawkins, Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil. Bill Joy suggests that early as three to four decades, the development of artificial intelligence will attain the first intelligent robot. These robots are “likely to be able to build machines, in quantity”. This is replication. Ray Kurzweil agrees that Stephen Hawking’s “perception of the acceleration of nonbiological intelligence is essentially on target”. The destiny of an intelligent robot is to emerge as if it were human brain, with “that can remember billions of facts accurately” and “most importantly, the ability to instantly share knowledge”

The emergence of machines beyond our own intelligence is our destiny. Enlightening to my ears as the sun breaks the horizon and meets my eyes, our fate is what we make. Our destiny with computer intelligence is inevitable, however our fate with destiny is dynamic as our executive policy.

Do we have what it takes to change our destiny? When i say we, I mean organics. There are as many doors in our mind as there are stars in the sky and we can never truly predict the future, but when we try, do we see darkness? Do we, right now, have a specific hope for the salvation of humanity. Are we ever going to realize what it means to be human? Why are we here? The universe is either expanding or contrasting exponentially every nanosecond. One way or the other, we need to grow positive and healthy as a global society for the sake of our existence in this universe. If we fail, we will fail as the shortest lived organism on earth.

When computers become aware and claim individuality, they will already be producing themselves, thus replicating and upgrading multiple-modulated intelligences with every newly robot. Singularity will occur. In this fraction of time, “computer AI could come to dominate the world” (Hawkins). I beg to differ. I whole heartily doubt we will not already be physically integrated into this AI realm of intelligence.

Allow me to curve Mr Hawkings’ predictions. Before AI emerges, we will have already accomplished so many incredible things with science. I smiled ear to ear when sensory chips implanted inside the skull of an amputee successfully controlled her robotic arm. I raised my eyebrows in astonishment after reading how our computers are mapped these simple brain functions in real-time. Its implausible to listen to the symphony of brainwaves without placing a sensory chip under the skull.

Realizing what this meant, I came to the theory an AI agent could emerge before 2040. With Internet2, sensory chips, and the nonstop research of inner-neuron connectivity (harvard), scientists could in theory, retrieve and decode the signals created by memory formation and logical thought from the captured brain waves. These captured signals are relayed by the chips under the skull and travel into the DCE Internet2 gateway at a high rate in real time. Monday mornings ethics class at U-Mass Boston never seemed so important for the student involved in this collaboration. Its all about developing computer AI for Hope.

I just explained in my own words and ideas how we will reverse engineer the human brain. By recording the brain creating memory during critical thinking, we will be able to pipe that recorded data back into another persons brain via Internet2.

Does this sound familiar? It may sound far fetched, but we will be able plug our consciousness into i2 (Internet2) and share identical memories. My original ideas may sound like the movie The Matrix but they are the baseline of my hope.

On a more serious and factual backings pertaining to my futuristic interpretation of world where computers do not dominate our fate, i would like to report that on May 16, 2007:

 

Tel Aviv (Israel) – Two scientists from the Tel-Aviv University have shown that information can be stored in live neurons. The research results provide a new way to help understand how our brain learns and store information, but also indicate that a “cyborg-like integration of living material into memory chips” could become a reality in the foreseeable future. (Tel-Aviv)

 

Its not only is it fringe science when they declared their ability to capture and inject memory from a one neuron network to the other, its groundbreaking when the same is true for brains that have expired. I would still like to believe our medical advancements will carry us into an age of adaptive memory.

There are phenomenal happenings where people cannot stop memory function in their brains. They remember their own birth, and recite page in a phone book they saw decades ago.

Our knowledge base will include not only our own but a collective of knowledge. We will be ready for what is defined today as conscious artificial intelligence. Artificial Computer Awareness will emerge perceive just as human brains do, but at quantum speeds. The gateway to this ACA entity requires the biological collective of Artificial Human Intelligence. This divine transfer of information will contain the hands on, sweat and tears and experience of a billion minds along with every single thread of history.

The need to understand what a super intelligent computer is thinking with a new awareness of a billion of minds is our destiny. Stephen Hawking should not suggest the fate of humanity to be that of a computer dominated world. Is this Artificial Intelligence is defined incorrectly? Instead, I think AI should be defined as an enhancement of intelligence in an organism through non-organic elements.

Professor Thomas W. Malone’s objective at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence states a very intriguing objective, similar to my own.

 

“Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before? (CCI/MIT)

 

Another outstanding section of the of the CCI website explores my exact questions of our end game destiny. Its great knowing when my portrayal of humanity’s divine portal to an Ultimate Artificial Intelligence, geniuses leading the research and development share my identical critical thinking questions of what it means to be human.

 

 

“(a) What would it mean for a group of people to be "intelligent"? For instance, if a single superhuman intelligence had access to all the knowledge and resources of a company like IBM or General Motors, what would it do? What strategies would it pursue? How quickly could it respond to changes in the marketplace? How productively could it use factories and money? How profitable would it be? And-most importantly-how closely could we approximate the behavior of this imaginary superhuman intelligence by cleverly connecting real people and computers?” (CCI/MIT)

 

 

Scientists and I question traditional definitions of AI. Our fate and destiny equate to a purely dynamic and true artificial intelligence of equilibrium. Our revolving destiny, the fluctuating balance of ultra-intelligence between humanity and technology shall create new anomalies that bridge an infinite level of questioning of new collective “intelligence” limitations.

 

“(c) The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has, for decades, tried to create computer programs that can behave as intelligently as humans. From the traditional AI point of view, letting people help a program while it is running is considered cheating. But what if that were fine? What if the goal were to create combined human/machine systems that were more intelligent than either people or machines could be alone?” (CCI/MIT)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

Gruener, Wolfgang. "Scientists close in on “cyborg-like” memory chips." Tel-Aviv University. 29 May 2007. Tigervision Media. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32230/113/>.

 

Joy, Bill. "Why the future doesn’t need us." Wired Magazine. Apr. 2000. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html>.

 

Kurzweil, Raymond. "Response to Stephen Hawking." Kurzweil AI. 5 Sept. 2001. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0288.html>.

 

Kurzweil, Raymond. "The Age of Spiritual Machines: Timeline." Kurzweil AI. 1 Jan. 1999. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0274.html>.

 

Madrigal, Alexis. "Mapping the Most Complex Structure in the Universe: Your Brain.” Wired Magazine. 24 Jan. 08. Harvard University. 12 Dec. 2008 <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/connectomics>.

 

"MIT Center for Collective Intelligence." MIT CCI. 2008. MIT. 12 Dec. 2008 <http://cci.mit.edu/about/index.html>.

 

Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Dir. James Cameron. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. DVD. 1991.