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Less than amazing?
Seriously? How old are you?
Do you have any idea how many problems were once consider the proper domain of AI that are now in every day use and taken for granted by the masses?
Optical Character recognition? Speech recognition? Facial recognition? Image classification? Autonomous walking robots?
Just because you now have an API that makes these things available to you, doesn't mean you should regard them as mundane.
I suggest you go try to write those functions yourself (without reference to the vast body of AI research that made them possible) and then tell me that AI hasn't produced anything amazing yet.
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And let us not forget Google's smart car, coming to an auto showroom near you (someday).
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: we could upload a human mind into it.
That's the one piece of the puzzle that is still nowhere near to being solved.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Oh I dunno - you could download most QA questioner minds into a Z80...and most spammers into an Intel 4004[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I dare say that most spammers could be downloaded to a floppy diskette. More specifically, a single sided, single density 5 1/4.
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I once worked on a system that had 8" floppies. No idea what capacity they were, probably about 256 bytes.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Which really was a huge amount in those days.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Side note:
The interior of the Borg cube in STTNG:Q Who[^] has arrays of 8" floppy drives on the walls for the technical look!
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The earliest ones I had were 'hard sectored' 256k. Later, when working with IBM hardware, they used soft sectored 8" floppies which could hold 1 MB.
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You are probably right: 360K should hold a quite a few spammers! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I got an ad when I first went to watch the trailer for Transcendence on YouTube. The ad? The trailer for Transcendence. *boom* mind blown.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: Would it be the next stage in human evolution? Or would it be the end of human kind?
One might as well wonder about magic since current advances would suggest the same likelihood as the scenario you presented.
Beyond that though...
In your scenario is there only one human mind or many?
If many then of course, since more computers is, presumably, more power, then there would be resource wars. If only one or just a few then it would be humans versus computers again in a battle for resources.
One might also presume that the upload brain is faster. Thus even supposing that it was able to find more interesting things to think about, what happens if it becomes bored?
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So that's just an improvement of 2400x faster...
Mind you, that's just mapping a brain, not actually mapping its own things.
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I'm looking forward to living forever. I'm more bothered about who will be the gatekeepers. Will people will mental health issues be 'filtered'?(Eugenics). And so on. 
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: I'm looking forward to living forever.
Me too, particularly if it's in a small box and only uses electricity. 
That would solve over population and food problems (assuming we're using that power station in the sky for juice, we could at least run for about 4 billion years from that).
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Sleep in the box until they build me new body. Then youth without the mistakes. Nice.
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If one would to upload a human mind into a super-puter, would that really be AI?
Jokes about 'blondes colouring their hair' etc. surely to follow. 
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To Quote my AI professor (Circa 1991):
When you can clearly define Intelligence... Then and only then will we have a definition for Artificial Intelligence. In the absence of that, lets just agree to call it "Magical Human-Like Problem Solving!"
And the "Magical" part goes away once you understand how it works.
We write programs with a purpose. Usually, a very specific purpose. We do not write a program and say "There... You can learn. Now go and find your purpose."
The need to eat and sleep, and process what happened during the day. The need to rely on others, and the feelings we have.
Frankly, our goals should be to make dogs/cats first (Kujo V2.0 anyone? He's back, and he's been reading your emails!)
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Downloading a Human mind into a computer would destroy the computer since the involved AI sentient-being would not be able to handle the massive stupidity it was getting.
People overrate the ability of Humans to reason...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Some already believe that the process is underway (e.g. Ray Kurzweil).
The process will not involve uploading anything, but our current mind will be augmented with our technology to improve our intelligence incrementally.
If you consider the tools that we have this day which extend our capability: our memory (the collective knowledge of the Internet), our calculative skills (a calculator), our ability to communicate, our planning and organisational skills, we have already started along this path. The tools that we use are not physically connected to us, but they are an integral part of our consciousness.
I think this a much more likely outcome in the short term.
The big departure from this will come from more invasive interaction with our technology. This boundary will only be broken when we have overcome societal issues. We're seeing this with Google Glass at the moment. We are interested in the technology but we distrust those that use it (in some cases probably rightly so).
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: It looks like a very interesting movie, but I suspect it will have one of those awful "love conquers all and saves existence yet again" kind of endings.
Maybe it will end like Lawnmower Man or Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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What? didn't they put a power switch on it...  ... anyway, they have it right, if an artificial mind had an internet connection, it will copy itself as many times as it could, so for anyone out there, if they create such advanced AI, please don't connect it to the internet.
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