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RE: What Will Life Be Like In 100 Years - Part 1
If we haven't sent ourselves into a new dark ages before then by the time we get to 2117 I fully expect us to have colonized Mars, Asteroids, and potentially some other planets. I suspect we will use drones to accomplish many more things than we can imagine today, and they will be the key to our rapid exploitation/use of our solar system and beyond. We are tool users and virtually every tool has benevolent uses, and malevolent uses. I suspect we'll have issues with the malevolent use of many of these as well.
Yes, this century will be the decider. We can easily wipe ourselves off the face of the planet with so many tools at our disposal. Also, the singularity (AI becoming as intelligent as us) will be a huge turning point too.
Hopefully we manage to ensure our survival :)
I've been skirting some new thoughts within myself around the concept of singularity and us creating an AI or other Artificial Life Form that is beyond our capabilities.
I haven't really settled my thoughts on this.
Yet lately I've begun to wonder if the life/AI is truly better than us and carries on is this a bad thing? I don't believe it has to be.
Our biggest threat is actually ourselves more than the AI/Creations. Those things danger does not come from within the creations themselves, but rather the fact such great tech we tend to focus on turning into weapons more than any other type of tech. So if our progeny end up being used for Malevolent purposes and are better than us that would be a bad thing.
If our progeny are benevolent and better than us, then I think we may be looking at it out of fear and that actually would be a good thing.
Like I said I haven't really settled the thought yet. It is one of several things I still bounce around in my head and think about sometimes that I haven't quite formed an opinion on.
I too believe that AI will be our ultimate creation. The creation that creates other creations. What that means for us as far as our "purpose" goes, I have no idea. It might end up finishing us off or it might end up helping us evolve into the next stage whatever that might be.
One thing is for sure though, with time, AI will only get more and more intertwined with life itself and maybe, just maybe, even run our world as a "government". Society may not accept it now but someday who knows.
All this is so revolutionary and so out there that we can't even see the whole picture right now. How can we, when we don't even have enough data. I guess, with everything else, we should let the natural unfolding of events and find out when they do.
P.S. I cover the AI aspect in the part 2 of this post.
I think AI that can do basic things and extrapolate orders will be a useful tool VERY soon coupled with drone technology.
Things like building structures for humans to live in, in orbits, on planets, etc. Why couldn't we use drones for this almost now? The issue with doing this at planets and distance is the delay in communication. That is why you need the AI to extrapolate and understand tasks. Be able to say "make the ground look like this, and put your spoils/waste here" and have it be largely autonomous so the delays in communication are not as big a deal but mostly used to update tasks.
We talk about sending a manned mission to mars, and other places. I personally think we should send a small army of drones outfitted for various tasks to such places and construct a place for humans to show up and already have shelter, and such in place.
Mining asteroids. Drones seem like they would be awesome for that. Also though I am saying Drone... they don't have to be small. You could have tons of smaller drones mining asteroids and loading up cargo in a large drone that can bring ore and material to us, to a space based refinery/smelter, etc and a lot.
This is also where I see the true power of VR being super valuable. We can use this VR to make drones potentially be extensions of ourselves. The key though is the delay in communication over distance, so that is why the drones will need to be able to interpolate and fill in steps to accomplish something for a task without needing us to constantly twitch them this way or that.
You hit the nail right on the head. AI coupled with drones will change everything for us. That's why I hinted that drones will play a major role in our future development projects.
Sending them to other planets to have structures ready for us might still take time as sending a lot of them in space requires large rockets as the payload will be just huge. But we will get there eventually.
On Earth, drones will carry out a lot of different functions. Dubai is already making ambulance-drones that will carry people from their location to hospitals. Also, one country (I forget the name) is going to use drones to plant hundreds of thousands of trees to combat deforestation using drones which will shoot seeds from the air and into the soil at fixed intervals to effectively and efficiently grow forests upon forests.
And all this is already in the short term. Imagine their range of capabilities in the future. Very exciting indeed.