New Badass Game Engine

[nodoze]

skynet has become self aware

[IPD]

Man you're dense. FF:SI is a movie, rendered offline on a cluster of over a thousand machines. This is producing comparable results in a real-time game on a $300 box on your shelf.

it looks pretty. it just doesn't impress me. 1-million polygon character rendering would impress me. what i see here is simply better texture mapping & 3d lighting. nothing demanding of a graphical powerhouse--hence the ps3. not at all dissimilar to re-designing the exterior of a car to make it "look sportier" while leaving the engine anemic.

[eljefefx]

Personally, the graphics aren't as important to me as the theme of the video. Say hello to the Singularity, people. That stuff could very well be happening in the near future.

[IPD]

Personally, the graphics aren't as important to me as the theme of the video. Say hello to the Singularity, people. That stuff could very well be happening in the near future.

and how many centuries removed are we from a viable positronic brain, jeff? it's one thing to program human-like responses to queries and environmental situations. it's quite another to achieve sentience. sci-fi has long fantasized about AI making a leap into sentience--should it progress far enough, yet we're still in the infant stages of programming adaptive, self-correcting behavior. quite possible? yes. near future? no way in heck.

[eljefefx]

and how many centuries removed are we from a viable positronic brain, jeff? it's one thing to program human-like responses to queries and environmental situations. it's quite another to achieve sentience. sci-fi has long fantasized about AI making a leap into sentience--should it progress far enough, yet we're still in the infant stages of programming adaptive, self-correcting behavior. quite possible? yes. near future? no way in heck.

Well, personally I couldn't tell you how far off we are from a viable creation of Star Trek.

The video in this thread shows advanced sentience, mainly to illicit an emotional response from the viewer. However to me the overall theme is important. A creation of man gains sentience, a human overseer of the production detects the sentience and feels that it is a flaw and calls for the disassembly of construct only to be confronted with the most basic, primal emotion for humans: fear.

The overseer then allows the construct to live. To me this is the important part, as I said. Not how we got there but what we will do when we get there.

[IPD]

Well, personally I couldn't tell you how far off we are from a viable creation of Star Trek.

The video in this thread shows advanced sentience, mainly to illicit an emotional response from the viewer. However to me the overall theme is important. A creation of man gains sentience, a human overseer of the production detects the sentience and feels that it is a flaw and calls for the disassembly of construct only to be confronted with the most basic, primal emotion for humans: fear.

The overseer then allows the construct to live. To me this is the important part, as I said. Not how we got there but what we will do when we get there.

...as originally postulated in february of 1989 during the second second season of star trek...

[nodoze]

actually alot of people say were only acople decades from a singularity, some very fascinating reading to be done out their if one has the time.

[eljefefx]

actually alot of people say were only acople decades from a singularity, some very fascinating reading to be done out their if one has the time.

Agreed. Ray Kurzweil is a good place to start.

[ictponder]

Agreed. Ray Kurzweil is a good place to start.

I've always found his stuff really interesting, however, sometimes he makes some very precise predictions that make me wonder how he can be so sure.

[nodoze]

i have been looking into some of his work and possibly going to pick up a few of his books . this is a subject that has always fascinated me and besides a few lengthy internet articles i have not dug deeper into it. but i find it hard to read leisurely about theorys anymore. it took me 3 months to get through stephen hawkins - a brief history of space and time (which is not very brief haha) :S and i finished abraham lincoln - vampire hunter in under a week, lol