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I agree with your comment, but it makes me think: Even if we can have that kind of AI, it's not a given that it will mean any of the things that the Church Of

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Even if we can have that kind of AI, it's not a given that it will mean any of the things that the Church Of Singularity types think it will mean. Sure, but that's because the features that the Singularity relies on are different from the kind of strong AI that Lakoff, et al., argue that we might not be able to have. The Singularity is more about hybrid intelligence -- artificial systems that interact with human intelligence to radically transform human society and interactions. Strong AI -- in the sense of artificial systems that viewed independently are indistinguishable in behavior from human intelligence -- is neither necessary nor sufficient for the Singularity, its nearly a complete irrelevancy. In fact, strong AI itself provides by definition nothing that having humans in the first place doesn't provide, the only relevance it has is that there is kind of an intuitive argument that a likely side effect of the research necessary to get to strong AI would be learning a lot more about how human intelligence works and how external influences can interact with it, but you don't need to actually get to strong AI to get that effect.