Tech | August 25, 2010 | 5 comments

Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

source: http://io9.com/5619183/could-self+aware-cities-be-the-first-forms-of-artificial-intelligence

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The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense — but will they also be alive? Could the increasingly complex systems needed to manage the next generation of megacities become our first true artificial intelligence?

People have speculated before about the idea that the Internet might become self-aware and turn into the first "real" A.I., but could it be more likely to happen to cities, in which humans actually live and work and navigate, generating an even more chaotic system?

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5 comments // Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

  • Rza_Bza
  • ThoughtNu
  • remanns
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    • I can also imagine future scenarios where there is more AI competition than cooperation. -kind of a dysfunctional family domestic arrangement.

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
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    • You know those "Urban Collective Consciousness" are going to get REALLY BORED with all their housekeeping/domestic chores,.....and will begin to mutter to themselves, gripe,demand larger shopping budgets....and spend time watching sex in the city. (Thats assuming they don't go gay and/or thespian; can you imagine "show tunes" in every elevator, at every fast food vendor,...or stop light ?)
      Hell,....what if the damn city fancies itself an artist and is always breaking out in song itself !?! "The diva in lights",...oh that would be peachy !

      Maybe if the suburbs could take on the role of pampered pets for mother metropoli, it would keep them occupied.

      Lord help us if cities ever get the right to vote.

      .........and I can already hear it in the future......" No,.....its YOUR TURN to take out the trash" !

    • 1 year ago
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