"Not the old terminator theory again that the machine exceeds human intelligence, it seems that everybody misses the point of DNA, once we understand how it really works and how our brains are built we can build things that will exceed any silicon chip or upgrade our own brain capacity and as a bonus we will find more about origins of earth life and how life works."
Actually I doubt this. Our brains and nerves are based on chemical processes which are very slow compared to electronics. Nerve impulses travel at about 60 MPH, versus a bit under the speed of light for fiber optics. That's around 40 billion times slower.
Also, our digital circuitry is approaching the size of individual molecules.
There are challenges with power and cooling, but they seem solvable.
"In the end the "machines" will probably be better version of ourselves that will evolve artificially by DNA manipulation at faster rate than the current natural evolution."
Engineering seems inherently far more efficient than evolution, artificial or otherwise. Even today we can build provably correct, arbitrarily large memories as long as we have hot-pluggable replacement parts. Parallel supercomputers also exhibit interesting traits of expandability, reliability and redundancy.
Many think that one of the first things that will be done with a first-generation "true AI" will be to have it engineer a second-gen AI. And so on...
"I think something like this is more likely to be happening in the universe than our current view of self replicating evolving computers."
Actually I doubt this. Our brains and nerves are based on chemical processes which are very slow compared to electronics. Nerve impulses travel at about 60 MPH, versus a bit under the speed of light for fiber optics. That's around 40 billion times slower.
Also, our digital circuitry is approaching the size of individual molecules.
There are challenges with power and cooling, but they seem solvable.
"In the end the "machines" will probably be better version of ourselves that will evolve artificially by DNA manipulation at faster rate than the current natural evolution."
Engineering seems inherently far more efficient than evolution, artificial or otherwise. Even today we can build provably correct, arbitrarily large memories as long as we have hot-pluggable replacement parts. Parallel supercomputers also exhibit interesting traits of expandability, reliability and redundancy.
Many think that one of the first things that will be done with a first-generation "true AI" will be to have it engineer a second-gen AI. And so on...
"I think something like this is more likely to be happening in the universe than our current view of self replicating evolving computers."
Time will no doubt tell... :-)