> Google > already knows more than any human, This is only true, of course, for specific interpretations of the word "know" ... and NOT for the standard ones...
>and can retrieve the information faster, > but it can't launch a singularity. Because, among other reasons, it is not an intelligence, but only a very powerful tool for intelligences to use... > When your computer can write and debug > software faster and more accurately than you can, then you should worry. A tool that could generate computer code from formal specifications would be a wonderful thing, but not an autonomous intelligence. A program that creates its own questions based on its own goals, or creates its own program specifications based on its own goals, is a quite different thing from a tool. -- Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=90465940-5ffd85