The Internet will, someday, spontaneously become "intelligent" and self-aware.
By
Joe Urban
on September 04, 2007
Life evolved from the organization of many molecular components (unless you believe in Intelligent Design). The Internet is an assembly of many components that are gathering both information and means to organize that information into actionable functions. Given the connected nature of the Net, will the "seed" of self awareness through some component of the Net (i.e. a program), or through the interrelationships throughout the Net (many programs finding and communicating with each other) enable a self-awareness someday?
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I've always loved this idea! I don't think it's spontaneous, though (just because I don't think there's ever a sudden point where something is intelligent/aware versus unintelligent/unaware). I tried to calculate it once but couldn't find good enough numbers on the numbers of interconnections in the internet compared to neurons in a human brain. Although, I did hear Seth Shostak say that computers today have as much computing power as the brain of a spider. I forget how far away he said a human level computer would be, but it was less than a century. Although, I also forget what metric he used to calculate it...
Patrick, that's the point. We are the seed for the intelligent Internet.
No because of lolcats.
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