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The video didn't load for me, but there was a similar talk on Youtube from Vinge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzRuPGnJxCs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz
by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
The video didn't load for me, but there was a similar talk on Youtube from Vinge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzRuPGnJxCs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzRuPGnJxCs
- melling 7y agoYou can also read Vinge's essay from 1993: https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html
- blacksqr 7y ago"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended." Four years to go... will we make it?
- Nuzzerino 7y agoI think the point was that we would have roughly the hardware needed to create superhuman AI. Then it would follow that "shortly after", someone would have figured out the rest.
- mcguire 7y agoI don't know about you, but I don't feel any smarter.
- melling 7y agoChina has made AI a priority. Hard to say what's going to happen but I would expect the AI arms race between the US and China to have quite an impact. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakening/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakenin...