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Kurzweil: We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045
- anonzzzies 2y agoI (Msc AI from the 90s) went from extreme pessimist to optimist in the past years but ‘Elon musk says it wil …’ is not very interesting and I am not sure why he added it there. There are far more scientific and informed people who have the same timescales as Elon; why not name one of them.
- pilingual 2y agoPerhaps the first thing that a millionfold expanded intelligence would do is not make predictions that have no basis.
- giardini 2y agoThis! Any prediction beyond 2 years out is probably wrong. His prediction for 2045 is the same as saying "Sometime in the future we'll have a 'millionfold expanded intelligence'".
- baal80spam 2y agoAfter watching Lex Fridman's podcast with this man, I take everything he says with a copious amount of salt.
- torlok 2y agoI can't even begin to imagine the depth of conversation they had. Did Lex ask him about the meaning of life? Did they talk about love?
- baal80spam 2y agoHeh, obviously they did. But RK seemed so absent and lost, and he said such things that it was obvious that he's just old and his mind is very much not what it used to be.
- jtbayly 2y agoBirthrate has declined dramatically, and even if it hadn’t, we wouldn’t have had enough babies to increase intelligence that much that quickly. The only way to increase the amount of intelligence on earth is by having children.
- torlok 2y agoStill can't believe you can build a career in this business out of saying we'll have more advanced technologies in the future. Slap a number on it while you're at it. Sell a book.
- bilbyx 2y agoI think there is a decrease in intelligence after reading this article.