Seriosly, if a virus were programed to take only 1% of the proscessor speed, ram, and hardrive space of every computer online, could it gain sentiency. or could the internet itself gain sentience. or has it already.
2007-03-23 03:39:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Not to say that it hasn't gained sentience yet, but if it has, it's not talking to anyone yet.
Ray Kurzweil (http://www.kurzweil.net) is one of the foremost futurists/ inventors on the planet. He's accurately predicted, within months, most of the major technological r/evolutions that have occurred within the last thirty years. Though some of his ideas have garnered a "we'll wait and see" from many people, his foresight in the world of computational electronics is unparallelled.
Basically, sometime within the next 15-25 years, a single household computer will harbor as much computational power as a single human brain. Given the progress of A.I. and processor speeds, it could take up to a hundred years before 'true' A.I. is born.
It's not to say that the internet couldn't already have some sentient spark within, waiting and collecting information, but I wouldn't expect anything too cinematic just yet. ;)
2007-03-23 04:13:36 · answer #1 · answered by EzminJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. the internet is as lots a determination of documents because it constantly has been. it incredibly is all it incredibly is. Is it haunted? i certainly have confidence so frankly. yet is it sentient? NO. we've been pretending desktops learn and comprehend a thank you to technique documents for see you later we've forgotten we are precisely anthropomorphising them. We use the documents we save right here (different than as quickly as we throw them away). We use them very straight away and ably -- the effect is exceptionally outstanding. yet they stay approximately as sentient as a hammer or a deck of playing cards and constantly would be.
2016-10-01 09:09:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it did it would make Brontosaurus look fast... it would take forever to make a decision.
But, it's a damaged system as it's got code written by Microsoft... no-one accused Microsoft of intelligent programming.
2007-03-23 03:46:50 · answer #3 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋