The Singularity Is Near film to screen at Woodstock Film Festival
September 14, 2010
The Singularity Is Near, A True Story About the Future documentary film by filmmakers Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf, and Toshi Hoo, with Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture), will screen at the Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday, September 30, 1:00 p.m. at the Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.
A panel discussion featuring Ray Kurzweil and Martine Rothblatt will follow the screening at 3:00 p.m. at Utopia Studio, 293 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. A second screening for the film will be held on Sunday, October 3, 8:00 p.m. at the Upstate Films Rhinebeck, 6415 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY. Individual tickets to screenings and panels are available online now at the Woodstock Film Festival website.
Comments (2)
by Fran
The singularity does not pose a technical problem but human. The processing speed will continue to grow exponentially, but at what speed abandon our outdated ways of thinking?
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by Fran
The singularity is a fascinating subject. Try to imagine the future after we achieve this is like a road that has no end, you can always go a little further. We’ll get to that infinity we have always searched through our creativity and intelligence. But all this happen, in my humble view, if it walks in the direction that Mr. Kurzweil expects in each of his interesting books, talks, films about the singularity. Everything after the singularity is positive, from medical applications to artificial intelligence. But what happens if it takes a wrong way? ” I think it would be like going from infinity to zero. Just the end.
Now I stand on the creation of the first self-conscious entity. With the ability to observe, learn and imitate behaviors. Almost like a little baby who just came into the world. Imagine that by this time we are all connected to the internet through our brains. Our first baby will start to follow the guidelines that will bring impregnated by their developers, but will grow and absorb information around him, because it is relatively easy to connect to us and download all the information. What kind of information can be found in some of us?
What I mean is that we should have applied a variant of Moore’s law, in addition to technologies, to humans. More human every 18 months. In the sense of a better person, more peaceful, more ethics, good values, with a great sense of doing good to others, and we would save future problems of our babies.
But this has only been a reflection.
Thank you very much to all who work in this project.