#signularity

The classic Turing Test is said to be passed by a computer which successfully pretends to be a human.

We must abandon all Turing Test competitions and awards: these are just training computers to replace us.

Everyone must learn how to prove they are a human.

So far as I'm aware nobody's done that yet, although the smartphones are easily capable.

That's like a last ditch fall back position which we have a chance of holding, if we decide we need to, if we start establishing it now.

Meanwhile we take a good hard look at where people are with AI today.

That's a World (Human) Government coordinated operation right there.

Ralph Fiennes (1995)

Christopher Chrome

Recently, I've been going through Ray Kurzweil's book Singularity is Near, and then this movie came up. I can't help but contemplate on what the movie is trying to portray about these complex ideologies. Regardless of the real-world discussions and opinions like Paul Allen's "The Singularity Isn't Near" (MIT Technology Review), in fact the movie did show interesting possibilities on singularity.

The movie however left me gasping for a couple more explanations.

Singularity or Transcendence (as it is termed in the movie) is pretty much a fairly known idea. However, the fact that kept me thinking is,

How can Dr. Will Caster control the other human beings (bodies) and make them act like some sort of a zombie? 

Enhancing a physical body or implanting your consciousness onto someone else is conceptually pretty possible but how could Dr. Will use a third body to speak what he wishes to through them? There seems to be a network connection of some sort between the bodies and Dr. Will. However, if the body has it's own consciousness (even though possibly corrupted by Dr. Will's) the body shall become a fusion, and not a zombie in totality who walks and says what Dr. Will whims for. It shall remain a 'copy' and could act different and shall not be under the control of Dr. Will.

Secondly, when the human consciousness is converted into mere electrical signals and uploaded just like a movie or electronic image, the 'brain' demanding more power, accessing major information hubs, algorithmically determining patterns or so on makes sense. To me, as limited by my understanding of the topic, I can imagine that the brain can become very powerful and super-human smart; however,

without a tangible embodiment, the transcendent world shall stay virtual

Defying the laws of physics on the so call "real world" shall not be possible from the "virtual world" unless a tangible embodiment inter-connects the two worlds. 

As such, how can all these particles (copies) of the consciousness fly up everywhere, joins the cloud and spread across the globe?

Is the power needed to lift or traverse the physical distance by these particles provided through some sort of an invisible wireless power grid network?

Where does the power to rebuilt a broken solar panel obtained from?

How can a man with a gunshot wound be healed without an external brain (as it itself is wounded and shouldn't be functioning) detecting the wound type and fixing it.

I've no complain in Dr. Will regenerating his own body, or regenerating a plant or fixing a blind eye in the lab environment. Those happened in a controlled environment; controlled pretty much by him. But out in the wild, even when there's a wireless network, physical changes, IMO, can not happen.