Yet another game I could play in my Copious Free Time. I really need to figure out how to make my morning routine more efficient so I don’t end up distracted by the internet when I’m lacking a hard deadline, thus recovering a few hours a day of spare time.
I’m most worried about the fact that Kurzweil argued that AGI would be no threat to humans because we would “merge with the machines”. He always left vague how he knew that would happen, and how he knew that would stop AI from being a threat.
Agreed, especially since, from what I’ve seen, Kurzweil’s reason for being so sanguine about Global Warming is exponential growth. He doesn’t seem to reflect on the problems that Global Warming is causing right now, or that the growth in renewables has come in a large part because of people who are concerned.
And the idea that we shouldn’t worry isn’t reassuring when it comes from someone who’s predictions of the future have mostly been incorrect. This is a man who stands by his predictions that by 2009, human musicians and cybernetic musicians would routinely play music together and that most text would come from voice recognition software, not keyboards. Anyone that takes him seriously should re-read that chapter with predictions for 2009 (which talks about 3D entertainment rooms, the growing popularity of computer authors, 3D art coming from computer artists being displayed on screens hung up on people’s houses, nanobots that think for themselves, the growing industry of creating the personalities for the artificial personas we routinely communicate with, etc.) and keep in mind that Kurzweil says his predictions were mostly accurate.
I was somewhat concerned when Google hired Kurzweil because he comes across as very Pollyanna-ish in his popular writings.
Now they’re buying a company founded by the guy who created this game.
/sigh
Yet another game I could play in my Copious Free Time. I really need to figure out how to make my morning routine more efficient so I don’t end up distracted by the internet when I’m lacking a hard deadline, thus recovering a few hours a day of spare time.
The predictions in his popular writings have been pretty off base. More unsettling is the way he twists the words around to pretend they’re accurate.
I’m most worried about the fact that Kurzweil argued that AGI would be no threat to humans because we would “merge with the machines”. He always left vague how he knew that would happen, and how he knew that would stop AI from being a threat.
Agreed, especially since, from what I’ve seen, Kurzweil’s reason for being so sanguine about Global Warming is exponential growth. He doesn’t seem to reflect on the problems that Global Warming is causing right now, or that the growth in renewables has come in a large part because of people who are concerned.
And the idea that we shouldn’t worry isn’t reassuring when it comes from someone who’s predictions of the future have mostly been incorrect. This is a man who stands by his predictions that by 2009, human musicians and cybernetic musicians would routinely play music together and that most text would come from voice recognition software, not keyboards. Anyone that takes him seriously should re-read that chapter with predictions for 2009 (which talks about 3D entertainment rooms, the growing popularity of computer authors, 3D art coming from computer artists being displayed on screens hung up on people’s houses, nanobots that think for themselves, the growing industry of creating the personalities for the artificial personas we routinely communicate with, etc.) and keep in mind that Kurzweil says his predictions were mostly accurate.