IBM's super computer Watson, named after its founder Thomas J. Watson, has won the IBM Jeopardy Challenge defeating Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter which represents a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence. The supercomputer is one of the most advanced systems on earth and was programmed by 25 IBM scientists over the last four years. The creators scanned some 200 million pages of content that is equivalent of about one million books into the system. The system is powered by 10 racks of IBM POWER 750 servers running Linux, and uses 15 terabytes of RAM, 2,880 processor cores and can operate at 80 teraflops, which is about 80 trillion operations per second.
There is no reason that computers will cease to get more powerful. They will keep growing until they are far more intelligent than the humans. Their rate of development and growth is much faster than that of ours.
As these people predict, in such a scenario, we will have to share the planet with this smarter than human intelligence things and we cannot predict their behaviors now. The one possibility is that we might merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs or maybe we'll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually.
As our modern world continues to careen further into the realm of fantasy and science fiction, it is interesting to note that our understanding of what it is to be human is changing. Is all that we are made up of data and information? Are we losing our humanity as we become more prone to technological advancements and marketing? If so, what will the human being of the future look like?
Additionally, what will it mean to 'live forever' in this future world? Presently such notions are steeped in myth and legend as dense and mysterious as vampires and other creatures of lore. Is the very concept of such myths undergoing a paradigm shift and if so, is it by design to put us off the trail of the real immortals who are living among us?
There are whispered rumors and hints throughout literature and even historical documents that state others have been successful in achieving this end. One such example is the urban legend of Sam Bailey. A small but devoted group of filmmakers has been developing a movie that will expose the truth behind the legend.
Make your voice known and demand to see this film screened in your area by clicking on the link below:
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