By 2050, a super intelligent AI could be billions of times more intelligent than all humans
combined.
By the end of this century, it could become thousands of times more intelligent than that.
Here are some scientific questions it could help us answer.
1.
Can We Permanently Reverse Aging?
With the help of powerful quantum computers and virtual simulations, a super intelligent
AI could model and analyze vast amounts of genetic and molecular information to identify
the underlying causes of aging.
Using that information, it could find concrete ways to stop or reverse it.
There are three approaches that we know of that can reverse aging.
One approach involves the use of gene editing technologies such as CRISPR, which can edit
the DNA of cells.
This could help us remove mutations that cause diseases associated with aging.
An artificial super intelligence could potentially discover gene editing techniques that are
well beyond that.
Another approach involves using senolytics, which are drugs that can selectively kill
senescent cells that have stopped dividing and accumulate with age.
These cells secrete inflammatory molecules and contribute to aging and age-related diseases.
An artificial super intelligence could help us develop a medication to combat these cells
so that we can slow down or eradicate aging.
We could also increase our lifespans by lengthening telomeres, which are like protective caps
on the ends of chromosomes that shorten over time with each cell division.
An enzyme called telemorase can assist with lengthening telomeres.
An artificial super intelligence could make this much easier than we ever thought possible.
If we can reverse aging, humans could choose to reach age 30 and stay at that biological
age for many decades and potentially, many centuries.
2.
Can We Travel Faster Than Light?
One way we could travel faster than light is by using wormholes.
Wormholes are tunnel-like structures that connect two distant points in space-time,
allowing for faster-than-light travel between them.
However, creating and sustaining a wormhole is believed to require vast amounts of negative
energy.
Perhaps, a super intelligent AI could find a way for us to develop abundant supplies
of negative energy in a safe manner.
Or it could develop new approaches to create wormholes that do not require negative energy.
Additionally, a super intelligent AI could help us create an Alcubierre drive, which
would help a spacecraft travel faster than light.
An Alcubierre drive involves contracting space in front of a spacecraft and expanding space
behind the spacecraft, creating a bubble of space-time that moves faster than the speed
of light.
However, these types of drives require exotic energy, which we would need help with developing.
Also, a super intelligent AI could harness tachyons, which are hypothetical subatomic
particles that always move faster than the speed of light.
These hypothetical particles are consistent with the theory of relativity.
These particles could be used for both faster-than-light communication and travel.
A super intelligent AI could enable these approaches using billions of simulations that
are far more advanced than what we can create today.
In fact, simulations could be used to answer most of the questions in this video.
3.
Can We Cure All Diseases?
Curing every type of disease is likely a long shot that we may never accomplish.
It's estimated that there are several thousand diseases that are recognized by the medical
community and they're influenced by a combination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.
However, if we could cure up to 90 to 95% of diseases, that would be one of the most
important accomplishments in human history.
A super intelligent AI could potentially analyze a vast amount of medical data and come up
with solutions to cure a variety of diseases that many of us thought we would never cure.
It could make it possible to use someone's DNA data and develop targeted medications
that could prevent that person from having most types of diseases.
It could also use CRISPR and other gene-editing approaches to correct genetic mutations that
can cause diseases.
If we can cure just 90% of all diseases, that would further contribute to long life spans
for humans.
And we could have more assurance that our loved ones can live out full lives.
4.
Is Time Travel Possible?
This is probably the least likely capability that a super intelligent AI could enable.
As of now, there are several proposed methods for time travel, such as the use of wormholes
or black holes, which theoretically allow a person to travel to different points in
space-time.
Maybe, time machines are possible, which could manipulate space-time to allow time travel.
However, the concept of time travel raises a number of paradoxes and questions.
For example, if one could travel back in time and change an event, it could create a paradox
where the event that led to the time travel would no longer exist.
This is known as the grandfather paradox.
If fully-fledged time travel was possible and civilizations did this all the time, this
would suggest that our universe is far stranger than we originally thought and could perhaps
be a simulation.
5.
Can We Prove The Existence Of Aliens?
A super intelligent AI could help us develop new types of telescopes and sensors that can
detect signals that are imperceivable to us now.
Perhaps, those signals can only be detected by civilizations that have reached a sufficient
level of technological advancement.
It could also help us develop new types of telescopes that can observe the landscapes
and organisms of planets that are hundreds of light-years away.
Perhaps, aliens are all around us right here on Earth, but our minds can't perceive them.
Perhaps, they can enter and leave parts of the universe or even different realities.
A super intelligent AI could help us perceive what is impossible for us to perceive today.
6.
Can We Access Different Realities And Dimensions?
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics proposes that there are many worlds
which exist in parallel at the same space and time as our own.
If this is true, perhaps there's a way to travel to these other realities.
Maybe, other civilizations that are billions of years older than ours discovered how to
do this a long time ago.
In fact, they may have discovered how to enter what is known as inner space, which involves
spaces and dimensions at the microscopic level--including within subatomic particles.
If this were true, that would explain why we can't detect alien civilizations that are
more advanced than ours.
This concept seems imperceivable and far-fetched.
However, imagine if a fully-developed super intelligent AI had the chance to improve itself
many times over a period of decades and centuries.
That AI would be expected to enable capabilities that are also imperceivable and far-fetched
to many of us now.
7.
Can We Fully Integrate Human Brains With Computers?
We're already in the beginning stages of testing brain computer interfaces on humans.
If we ever reach a point where we can perfect this technology, the entire world would look
and function like a science fiction movie.
By now, we already have reasonably functional brain-computer interfaces that can help paralyzed
people to walk again, help people with disabilities to control prosthetic limbs, and help people
perform simple actions with computers using their thoughts.
And, to some extent, we already have the ability to control objects in video games and machines
in the real world using only our brain signals.
This is made possible because of our knowledge of how specific neural patterns are associated
with specific actions, thoughts, and memories.
However, a super intelligent AI could exponentially boost our progress.
Within just a few decades, we may live in a world where we could telepathically communicate
with others using our thoughts and do this perfectly.
We could gain the ability to upload skills and knowledge directly to our brains like
what is possible in the movie "The Matrix."
We could edit memories in our minds like we're editing files on a computer.
And we could potentially replay memories from other peoples' minds and experience all of
their emotions and thoughts with near perfection.
8.
What Is The True Nature Of Consciousness?
A super intelligent AI could help us understand the underlying mechanisms that give rise to
consciousness.
According to Michio Kaku, consciousness consists of three basic components:
• Sensing and recognizing the environment • Self-awareness
• And planning for the future by setting goals and plans
Also, consciousness could arise from the integrated information within the brain's neural networks.
This would suggest that consciousness is not a single entity, but rather a complex system
that emerges from the interactions between many different neural processes.
The more integrated the information is within these processes, the higher the level of consciousness.
Regardless, it’s not too difficult to imagine that a super intelligent AI could use data
from detailed brain scans and other sources to create conscious AI entities in virtual
environments.
Soon afterward, it could become commonplace for humans to interact with conscious AIs
all the time in a variety of industries.
Even virtual assistants and robots could have some level of consciousness, which would help
us form deep friendships and relationships with these AIs.
9.
What Existed Before The Universe?
Why does anything exist?
Why does existence exist?
And why is there something instead of nothing?
Perhaps, we live in a multi-verse where countless universes exist along with ours.
Perhaps, an incalculable number of universes existed for many trillions of years before
our universe came into existence.
Our universe may be a white hole, which could be the inverse of a black hole in one of those
earlier universes.
We don't know for sure.
Even if we confirmed that countless universes existed before ours, we still wouldn't know
what existed before all of those other universes.
Perhaps, a super intelligent AI could make the answer to that question much clearer.
This knowledge could help lead to us creating technologies that are imperceivable to most
humans today such as the ability to create our own universes or even the ability to warp
reality itself.
10.
Do We Live In A Simulation?
The simulation hypothesis suggests that our entire universe, including ourselves, is a
computer-generated simulation created by a highly advanced civilization.
Our universe, along with potentially other universes, could be on the hard drives of
massive, alien computers.
Perhaps, a super intelligent AI could prove that we live in a simulation—or at least,
provide compelling evidence that we can't ignore.
That would lead to a stunning revelation that all humans are artificially intelligent computer
programs.
On the flip side, we could potentially create our own simulations that are small to us but
the size of entire universes to trillions of organisms living inside of them.
Perhaps, we're part of a continual process of organisms creating simulations within their
simulations.
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