Abstract

AROCENA, Felipe  and  SANSONE, Sebastián. Technological acceleration and artificial intelligence. How much could we change?. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.45, n.2, pp.301-326.  Epub Jan 15, 2024. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v45n2/89851.

How fast are we moving in the 21st century? How fast did we move in the past? How can we capture with some objectivity the technological acceleration that, of course, ends up impacting every dimension of social life? How far can we reasonably project the development of artificial intelligence driven by technological acceleration? In this work we will test some answers to these questions based on the reflection of three renowned specialists such as Nick Bostrom, Max Tegmark, and Ray Kurzweil, who come from diverse disciplinary fields as philosophy, physics, and futurism. It is true, we all seem to feel that acceleration of life in parallel with the speed of technology, but how fast are we going? how can we compare with the past? when does that vertigo start? And, more interestingly, how far can that acceleration go? To answer these questions we follow the traditional method, we talk with experts who have made them their object of study. That is why in this work we build an interdisciplinary analysis with a physicist, a philosopher, and an inventor, three renowned thinkers who expand the conventional horizons and help us to intuit that singular future in the making, as unpredictable in its forms and concrete figures, as predictable in its projection by the trends of technological acceleration. Let the reader think that the mobile device now in your pocket to communicate has a million times more memory and is a hundred thousand times faster than the computer that put us on the moon. And this is the trend of the exponentiality of the evolution of information technologies, that has doubled in capacity every year and eight months for a century. What technology will your children carry in their pockets, or rather implanted in their bodies, in fifty years?

Keywords : ethics; future; social change; superintelligence; technology.

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