Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind
do to some degree already, as has been shown in this book. If we can do that
much, what are the Overlords fully capable of? Others say that AI has taken
over entire galaxies and are spreading to new galaxies to invade those as
well. Although there is a grain of truth in that, it’s actually the Overlords
who are spread out across the physical universe, and AI is their invention
and their tool in order to control other civilizations in their empire.
Now consider this (and here we have Dr. Kurzweil again):
As important as the biotechnology revolution discussed above will be, once
its methods are fully mature, limits will be encountered in biology itself.
Although biological systems are remarkable in their cleverness, we have
also discovered that they are dramatically suboptimal. I've mentioned the
extremely slow speed of communication in the brain, and as I discuss below
(see p. 253), robotic replacements for our red blood cells could be thousands
of times more efficient than their biological counterparts.69 Biology will
never be able to match what we will be capable of engineering once we fully
understand biology's principles of operation.
The revolution in nanotechnology, however, will ultimately enable us to
redesign and rebuild, molecule by molecule, our bodies and brains and the
world with which we interact.70 These two revolutions are overlapping, but
the full realization of nanotechnology lags behind the biotechnology
revolution by about one decade. 366
Dr. Kurzweil continues a few pages further into the book (and this is
quite chilling),
Although biological proteins are three-dimensional, biology is restricted to
that class of chemicals that can be folded from a one-dimensional string of
amino acids. Nanobots built from diamondoid gears and rotors can also be
thousands of times faster and stronger than biological cells. 367
[…]
A particularly impressive demonstration of a nanoscale device constructed
from DNA is a tiny biped robot that can walk on legs that are ten
nanometers long.90 Both the legs and the walking track are built from DNA,
again chosen for the molecule's ability to attach and detach itself in a
controlled manner. The nanorobot, a project of chemistry professors
366
Pp. 180-81, op. cit.
367
P. 186, op. cit.
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