We've had an extremely light discussion around AI with artists complaining realising they too can be automated, we had the concept of a literal baby making facility, I'm assuming genetic rewriting for immortality is next week...
But getting away from the leftist takes on these subjects and the meming on facing a skynet/matrix future, what are the real opinions you have on this kind of tech?
Personally, with AI it's a Pandora's box, if we CAN create sentient artificial life, best hope is not to do it but if a dumbass does we imbrace and integrate that being, as starting conflict will probably be the reason we die.
As for artificial wombs, having the tech is needed but not in this commercial sense that video presentation gave, more as a 'last resort, literally required to save humanity' sense.
These are the two ones mentioned this week alone but any other tech you put on the 'forbidden' side or your takes on the ones disscussed.
The nucleotides are the basic indivisible unit, and there's four of them in nature (uracil isn't used in DNA). Four choices, two bits of information. To invoke atoms is completely irrational and you're only suggesting that to desperately have some reason you can convince yourself that you're not wrong about the size.
Summary of what science says, functional DNA is 10% to 20%, depending on definition used.. That's not pseudo-science, you just don't want to believe for whatever reason that the relevant parts are small.
I'm not. Only 1% of DNA codes for proteins, this other 9% is the "if-then statements". The other 90% are more like UI, asserts, printf statements in that analogy - they do something, they're part of the code, but not part of the algorithm.
We're probably in agreement here because making an intelligent AI that's not a total psycho is probably the bulk of the "algorithm". Even going from Lore to Data in ST:TNG is going to be way harder than the actual intelligence part.
I'm not measuring "things" by storage size, I'm measuring the algorithm size and I've explained by reasoning why it's necessarily very small in computing terms. Of course an actual human-level intelligent AI will use gigaquads of storage and perform massive computation.
But how much CPU/memory the algorithm uses isn't material to limiting the spread of that information. If the algorithm is the threat to our existence then that's what has to be prevented from being passed around.