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Rise of the machines? Seriously?
by aashishkoirala 13y ago
Rise of the machines? Seriously?
- wffurr 13y agoI was nodding along with the first page, but then the second page came out of left field. Hard to take this seriously - what does the ever-distant singularity have to do with dealing with mass economic displacement? One of these is a real problem, and the other we'll deal with when we get there, if we get there. Hard to imagine intelligent machines taking over the world in an energy-constrained future. They have to get smart soon enough to build nuclear power for themselves with our remaining fossil fuel stocks. Or just plug humans into batteries which somehow works...?
- joesmo 13y agoI'll take talk about singularity more seriously once we have built at least one intelligent machine. Until then, I just marvel at supposedly intelligent people's delusions of said singularity.
- sp332 13y agoHow intelligent does a machine need to be for you?
- joesmo 13y agoGood question. The theory of singularity requires "greater-than-human intelligence" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity). Anything even approaching any kind of intelligence would be mind-blowing at this time, however.