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His one good point is that "The Singularity" is a bad name for a concept that doesn't refer to a single event, which makes it easy to dismiss with the "rapture
by orangecat 16y ago
His one good point is that "The Singularity" is a bad name for a concept that doesn't refer to a single event, which makes it easy to dismiss with the "rapture of the nerds" strawman. Aside from that, it's mostly an argument from personal incredulity, which is even less valid here than usual. I wouldn't have believed you a year ago if you told me that a search and advertising company had self-driving cars roaming around Mountain View, but here we are.
Despite all the sensory inputs we can attach to computers these days, and vast stores of human knowledge like Wikipedia that one can feed to them, almost all such data is to a computer nearly meaningless.
IBM's Watson might disagree (http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/13/technology/ibm_jeopardy_watson/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/13/technology/ibm_jeopardy_wats...). But of course responding to natural language questions (er, answers) will be moved to the "not real AI" category once it's commonplace.
- hugh3 16y agoHis one good point is that "The Singularity" is a bad name for a concept that doesn't refer to a single event, which makes it easy to dismiss with the "rapture of the nerds" strawman. Right, so why are we even still discussing the concept? If we want to discuss what's likely to happen in the future then let's throw away the silly term "the singularity" and start talking about specifics.
- dnautics 16y agoit's not real AI. Read "Fluid concepts and creative analogies". If you ask a human, abc is to 123 as abd is to... The human would probably say 124. Ask watson the same and it would answer "jackson five".
- rbanffy 16y agoWhich would be a very clever answer and even hint at some sense of humor.
- dnautics 16y agohttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=abc+is+to+123+as+abd+is+to http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
- kurokikaze 16y agoCan you explain this to me?