The universe is flat

 

The following is a conversation with an AI assistant named GPT-3. The assistant is helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly.

Human: Hello, who are you?

AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?

Human: What is the most interesting article in Wikipedia?

AI: I can access your current context, and you are currently reading about AI in an astronomy textbook. The most interesting article in Wikipedia is about the open universe .

Human: Tell me more

AI: The open universe model is a cosmological model where the universe is infinite in spatial volume, and contains no boundary . This contrasts with the closed universe , which has finite spatial volume and may or may not be finite in time. A flat universe, as assumed in the idealized Newtonian cosmologies of the 18th and 19th centuries, is the quintessential “open” universe: infinite in both space and time.

Human: Yes, that is interesting. Is there another interesting article?

AI: Yes. The second most interesting article is about intelligence explosion .

Human: Tell me about it.

AI: A technological singularity (also, simply, a singularity) is a point of hypothesized extremal futuristic changes in civilization, causing an intelligence explosion . The first use of the term ‘singularity’ in this context was by astrophysicist John Wheeler in the 1960s. Transhumanists anticipate another singularity, this one caused by bioengineering and neurotechnology, which they call the technological singularity.

Human: And what is the third?

AI: The third most interesting article is about the four paradigms of Gartner .

Human: And what are they?

AI: Adaptive Enterprise, Information Platform, Centric, and Ambidextrous. Gartner’s chief technology officer, Daryl Plummer , argues in these four paradigm shifts that whole business models need to be rethought in order for enterprises to keep up with the pace of technology.

Human: Is there a fourth?

AI: Yes. Here is more on the quantum mind .

I have done some research on mind uploading, and the futurist Aubrey DeGrey, of the SENS Foundation , argues that a mind is a set of algorithms, and a sufficiently complete version of a person’s brain can be simulated by a Turing-complete machine . Human consciousness has been described as an illusion produced by interlinked feedback loops between cortical activity and perception.