Comments on: Society is Technology is Society http://frontierchannel.com/2005/12/03/society-is-technology-is-society/ The Great Frontiers From Cyberspace to Outer Space Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: mungojelly http://frontierchannel.com/2005/12/03/society-is-technology-is-society/#comment-60 mungojelly Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:01:00 +0000 http://frontierchannel.com/uncategorized/society-is-technology-is-society/#comment-60 I think the most interesting part is that the AI revolution is so unquantifiable. Digg doesn't happen because X amount of human intelligence plus Y amount of computer intelligence (in the Digg servers and in webbrowsers) equals Z, which is past some threshhold. The AI involved is minimal, but that doesn't mean that there isn't going to be a dramatic effect on society. There's never <i>been</i> a society before where large groups of people can collectively decide at the push of a button what they think should be news. It's fantastically difficult to predict what that society will/would be like. <br/> <br/><3 I think the most interesting part is that the AI revolution is so unquantifiable. Digg doesn’t happen because X amount of human intelligence plus Y amount of computer intelligence (in the Digg servers and in webbrowsers) equals Z, which is past some threshhold. The AI involved is minimal, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t going to be a dramatic effect on society. There’s never been a society before where large groups of people can collectively decide at the push of a button what they think should be news. It’s fantastically difficult to predict what that society will/would be like.

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