James Miller - Economics & Intelligence Amplification
1,467 views · Published 18 October 2013 · 26:51 · Indexed 29 October 2026
Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2013 · Science & Technology
James D. Miller, Associate Professor of Economics at Smith College and author of Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World, discusses the economics of the intelligence amplification & the singularity (among other high impact futures) - we'll either have computers that are smarter than people or we will have significantly increased human intelligence. According to Miller, brains are essentially organic computers, and, thus, applying Moore's law suggests that we are moving towards singularity. Since economic output is a product of the human brain, increased brainpower or the existence of computers smarter than humans could produce outputs we cannot even imagine. Singularity Rising on Amazon.http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Rising-Surviving-Thriving-Dangerous/dp/1936661659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381981984&sr=8-1&keywords=singularity+rising
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