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Fully Homomorphic encryption if improved could allow for private cloud computing or really neat p2p networks.
Many diseases will become curable and some may be eradicated from the developed world or entirely
Next 100+ years:
Quantum key distribution could allow for the best possible encryption
Neutrino based communication could allow for wireless communication through the earth
Ongoing: Extreme poverty is falling world wide
AI diagnosing disease better than any one doctor can. If we could build a model with a normalized dataset of everyone's medical history, we could catch a lot of diseases early. Especially if we encourage people to report even minor symptoms when they have it. Imagine for example that everyone who gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer reported repeated congestion of the left nostril three years before diagnosis. It's…
I think AI-assisted healthcare is inevitable and will probably offer the biggest improvement in the general population's health for decades, it will focus on disease prevention and flagging up those early warning signs that most people don't usually notice
It's not "black" because it's bad. It's black because it's a turned-off screen, which has a black colors. Black Mirror stories are bad because the Mirror reflects bad/broken people, not because the mirror is is bad. A White Mirror would be a screen that is turned on, but also reflects images.
Yeah op yikes to jumping to 'black = bad, white = good' metaphor space. What is wrong with you?
AI diagnosing disease better than any one doctor can. If we could build a model with a normalized dataset of everyone's medical history, we could catch a lot of diseases early. Especially if we encourage people to report even minor symptoms when they have it. Imagine for example that everyone who gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer reported repeated congestion of the left nostril three years before diagnosis. It's…
Agreed overall, but my concern about this is further alienating people on the margins with symptoms that don't fit into accepted disease frameworks.
But you bring up a generally good point. Since AI magnifies what is already happening, at least in the short term we should expect it to increase marginalization of those outside the mainstream.
In a distant sense, I find the Culture series of novels to be an inspiring vision of the future. People develop AI and technology to master nature on a planetary scale, and largely live peaceful, happy lives. In a nearby sense, I am inspired every time I do random household chores, by thinking that maybe AI and robots will be able to do this soon. Folding clothes, picking up toys, putting things away where they go, c…
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That's 100% black mirror, not white mirror. Babies being raised by machines is dystopian as hell.
Baby isn't being raised by a machine. How is this different from a crib mobile (for entertainment) + video monitor?
Think of an operator logging into the system at 3am with a C&C EVA voice calling and greeting them, "Hello Operator. We have 24 customer-facing systems offline. Preliminary analysis indicates that these are caused by 3 internal services and 2 postgres clusters being offline. With a confidence of 83%, the internal services are also offline due to the postgres clusters. I will now send you what I have found out about the postgres clusters with a probability of the scenarios and monitoring indicators for the different scenarios. It looks like the clusters are failing to elect a leader after several network-caused timeline switches with a confidence of 72%. Highly matching runbooks exist for 4 out of 7 highest probability scenarios"
Well, maybe I'd prefer that in text on a website, but no need to be that serious right now.
It is possible to get monitoring of this quality even with existing tools and maybe some internal extensions of these tools, sure. But that's a barrel you can pour effort into and it has no bottom at all. And it gets harder and harder the more complex and the more dynamic your environment is. It'd be great to dump all of that into a black box, even if that black box just establishes a global timeline of events.