Nikola Tesla predicted smart phones and the like based on their understanding of physics. FTL isnt something that's feasible based on our understanding of physics unless negative mass exists. And even then we'll need an amount of it that would have the same mass as Jupiter to do anything with it.

Yeah but everyone was pissing themselves laughing at tesla at the fact energy could be wirelessly transferred too...

Now look, wireless charging man! lol

actually, most people agreed with Nikola Tesla on charging wirelessly

With the advancement of AI, I think it's much more within our sights than anyone can imagine, but... "Don't bring 'sentient' machines, they'll destroy the planet"

it lead to a capital sink that caused him to miss the value in using it for communications instead.

and the difference between the wireless charging of Tesla versus now is the distances that were being proposed

Tesla thought that we would charge electric planes flying high in the sky

ffs, we have a more or less accurate solar system emulator now...

Concentrated energy.. huh

Again, I don't think that's too far in the future either..

it probably wont ever become practical simply because storing energy is more efficient than transferring it through a medium like air

I get that yeah, but who knows, if we focus on making these 'sentient' machines think about problems like that we might see it sooner than later

hmmm... maybe

like come on, ffs, there's nothing scary about anything without arms or legs and/or the ability to explode... lol

mismanaged artificial general intelligence is scary

I like to think of it like a child, if you bring it up to be violent, it'll be violent, if you bring it up to think, it'll think, if you bring it up to love, it'll love..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz8EBU01sIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHd22kMa0_w

these are two good videos on ai

I can guarantee you, hansen robotics sophia was many years in trial on error for it to be presentable, just like a child would..

Issac Arthur is great at this type of thing

I'm a programmer myself.. I think these videos are stupid, a program that's written, does what it's told to do, any machine does...

bro, you didnt even watch the video...

say for example, machine learning right, I could teach it how to recognise a species of flower, or recognise a fighting style by pose... that's what we're talking here

Issac Arthur isnt some random guy

he's one of the leading spokesmen on futurism and a common consultant for basically any sci-fi trying to stay within the realm of physics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Arthur

But in order for it to learn the difference between krav maga or karate, I'd need to give it a set of data to learn from... violence would be in no version of any program I may write in the future.. especially if it's hardware includes a physical body...

my personal opinion of "futurists" isn't a good one...

you should try to watch a few of his videos, especially since you seem to be into space colonization

if you ask me, they're better suited for the film industry... not the scientific one...

I really don't like his presentation style... screams unprofessional to me..

he was born and raised by two physicist and concerning the heritability of iq, hes probably more intelligent than either of us

And with that information, I don't doubt that, but I could raise a child explaining bits and pieces of computing to them.. doesn't guarantee that it'll make said child actually learn the ins and outs

A person can have a very IQ, but without the information to compliment it, it's invalid

A really powerful processor is useless without it's instruction set..

what exactly do you think of futurism?

Ugh... where do I start, I think of futurists like that guy that keeps telling me what I could maybe do with my programming skill... most of it's invalid, some feasible, and I really don't know until I try it, but due to the stupidity of the idea, I wouldn't even bother... let's just put it that way... lol

it's thought provoking, not factual...

```He received his GED at the age of sixteen. In 2001 he graduated at the top of his class with a degree in physics from Kent State University and began to pursue a graduate degree in biophysics.```

therefore invalid until further evidence is produced