ual Devices, author Ray Kurzweil gives a very quick history of the Universe, which serves as a preface for his subsequent theories. In this history, Kurzweil chronicles the rapid development of time among salient incidents in the great the World, describing period, in his own words, as geometrically delaying (pg. 10). He then jumps headfirst into the history of evolution, and soon thereafter of technology, in both of that the time between prominent events is usually shrinking exponentially. This leads him to question the opposing nature of the trend (how can time always be accelerating while applied to technology and evolution yet decelerating as applied to the very Universe which contains these? ) as well as hunt for similarities between your trends. Hence is created Kurzweils first assumptive law, that of time and chaos.
Kurzweils Regulation of Time and Chaos is just as follows, Within a process, enough time interval among salient situations (that is definitely, events that change the nature of the method, or considerably alter the future of the process) expands or perhaps contracts together with the amount of chaos. (pg. 29) Quite simply, as points become more topsy-turvy as put on a specific method it takes longer for significant events to happen within that process, and vice-versa. In respect to this legislation, the rate from which we improve technologically offers, and will still, accelerate significantly.
What if this exponential development hits a wall so to speak, as styles of the dramatical variety usually do? Kurzweil is quick to answer this question, which in turn he knows will be elevated quickly simply by most readers. According to the Law of Accelerating Results, which declares simply that as a process speeds up techniques the results from that method speed up as well, technology will continue to build upon and advance alone. As technology advances, we can easily create even more technologically advanced equipment, which in turn is going to enable us to create even more advanced machines, and so on. Relating to Kurzweil, the only two resources this kind of technological evolution needs to endure are the developing order with the evolving technologyand the chaos from which a great evolutionary process draws its options for additional diversity (pg 35), both of which, Kurzweil claims, will be unbounded.
Together with the an understanding of the Laws of Accelerating Earnings and of As well as Chaos strongly under each of our belts, Kurzweil advances to the next chapter in order to answer a question subtly increased by his faith in the continuing exponential advancement of technologycan a great intelligence (such as ours) create an intelligence (such as the artificial intelligence of our computers) more intelligent than alone?
His answer is certainly, and he comes to this conclusion searching at the technique of human advancement as an intelligence by itself. If this is the case, and we should be measure intelligence in terms of speed and rate of recurrence of mistake (as we all do intended for an IQ test), in that case evolution, relating to Kurzweil, would charge only infinitesimally greater than zero on that same IQ test. Consequently , humansa creation resulting from the intelligence of evolutionare even more intelligent compared to the intelligence that spawned them. Kurzweil cites the sort of scientists regular work with DNA, which is within the brink of allowing all of us to refine and control evolution factory-like process never could, as evidence that we get indeed be a little more intelligent than the process that gave us birth.
Not necessarily a difficult comparison which leads Kurzweil to postulate that some day computers, the intelligence that man made, will some day become more smart than guy himself. Additionally it is not difficult to foresee the morning when personal computers more clever than guy will begin to create intelligence more intelligent than theythus Kurzweil brings to an in depth his second chapter, placing nicely the stage throughout the publication.
