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Your criticisms are fair, but: 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain 2) How long do you think we'll need? "At som
by robg 18y ago
Your criticisms are fair, but:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain
2) How long do you think we'll need? "At some point in the future" is an awfully long time scale, especially relative to how long it took natural selection to create the human brain.
3) I don't think they'd deny that augmentation is already happening. But that piecemeal progress is still a long way from The Singularity.
- swombat 18y ago1) is exactly what I suggested - a virtual model of the brain. I don't see any "but" there... 2) I'm no AI expert, so my opinion of this is pretty irrelevant, but I would be extremely surprised if we didn't have some form of human-level intelligence within the next 100 years, and I would not be surprised if we had it in the next 20 years. 3) Piecemeal progress that feeds back on itself is the essence of the whole Singularity hypothesis. Better brains come up with even better ways to enhance themselves, which makes them even better, etc. Technological progress can grow exponentially in ways not subject to the Malthusian limits.