PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.3: Technological Singularity, Ingroups And Outgroups, Plinking
3 Mar 2017
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Test cognitive development (learning and cognitive development and evolution cooperation) Gradual emergence of complex cognition and behavior from simple building blocks: can be used to trace evolution. Ethnocentrism people prefer their own culture/race and see it as superior to others and thus behave accordingly with the in-group and discriminate/exclude out-group members. Issue is unresolved and have become dormant with one exception technological singularity idea. Technological singularity accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runway effect wherein ai will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, this radically changing or even ending civilization. Ray kurzweil: futurist, extension of moore"s law the number of transistors that can be squeezed into an integrated circuit every 2 years, 2045; computing power will exceed that of human brains. Computational properties of the brain robust and fault tolerant flexible can learn through modifying its synapses approximate very large number of neurons operating with various levels of activity highly parallel many things happening at once.
