Yes. But not enough to make it feel like the story is moving towards a conclusion.
medical advances
They will be incremental, enough so that very, very few people will notice any practical impact on their lives. Some advances, however, will be accompanied by a great deal of hype. Evidence will emerge that some treatments which we think work now do not in fact work.
signing up for cryonics?
I will continue to believe cryonics is something I would sign up for if I had money to spare, but will also continue to feel too poor to have money to spare.
the future of AGI
This isn’t really about AGI, but I expect to be amazed by at least one cool new application of computing that vaguely resembles human intelligence.
Yes. But not enough to make it feel like the story is moving towards a conclusion.
They will be incremental, enough so that very, very few people will notice any practical impact on their lives. Some advances, however, will be accompanied by a great deal of hype. Evidence will emerge that some treatments which we think work now do not in fact work.
I will continue to believe cryonics is something I would sign up for if I had money to spare, but will also continue to feel too poor to have money to spare.
This isn’t really about AGI, but I expect to be amazed by at least one cool new application of computing that vaguely resembles human intelligence.