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If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

• Terr_ 2y ago
  "Again?" The author's claim that Kurzweil has been "right" the first time--or is about to be proven right any year now--seems pretty shaky. > In the age of generative AI, [human-level general intelligence by 2029] seems conventional, if not conservative. The author thinks I'm hyper-conservative? Counter-proposal: The author is caught up in an industry hype-train which is profitable for journalists covering tech. The current exuberance over LLMs is interesting in many ways, but that does not fulfill those grandiose predictions of a new cybernetic species. It's easy for anybody to make a package of interesting and proven predictions... Where the proven predictions are not interesting, and the interesting predictions are not proven.
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