Analyzing the Technological Singularity

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From 1963 to the present day we have unforeseeable developments of machines with Moore’s law showing that over the microprocessor transistor count growing over six million times over this time period. Professor Kevin Warwick states that robots will become the dominant life form by 2050 and will take over the human race. Warwick is wrong to some extent; robots will not take over the world, but will rather merge with humans. An exploration of the processing power and technological advances of robots in 50 years’ time, the technological singularity and the coexistence of machines and humans in the future will prove why machines will become the dominant form of life.
The current pace of technology’s rapid exponential improvement will continue through to 2050 and beyond until robots will eventually exceed human intelligence. Hans Moravec, a top roboticist, believes that by the 2020s, robots will be programmed with a basic level of human reasoning and emotions; this will allow them to perform household tasks and have the ability to respond to social stimuli. Robots must replicate human behaviour to be useful. Even acts such as walking and sitting all subtlety involve feelings. With the vast amount of uses for robots that need human behaviour, Hans Moravec predicts that this will lead to intelligence robots emerging displaying very humanlike behaviours by 2020. Therefore, as this is likely to occur by 2020, it is very likely that machines will go past human intelligence by 2050 and will become the dominant life on earth.

The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a theoretical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence that will "radically change ...

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Warwick is not correct in his statement as it is far more likely that machines will coexist and merge with humans peacefully rather than a violent takeover. This was illustrated through the analysis of the processing power and technological advances of robots in 50 years’ time. The technological singularity and the coexistence of machines and humans in the future will prove why machines will become the dominant form of life. Technology has come a long way over the past 50 years and if the current trends continue it is possible that the machines will overtake humans in intelligence. This moment should not be feared but rather greatly anticipated as the singularity and the years after may mark new realisations about the universe, science and nature that could not be predicted with any current systems of intelligence.

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