Re: [singularity] Convincing non-techie skeptics that the Singularity isn't total bunk

2006-10-23 Thread Mark Davis
Gregory, I don't think the military or industries related to the military are working on any sort of a general intelligence system. Narrow AI is fairly mainstream and I can see the military working on various projects in that realm, but general AI is a pretty specialized problem most scientis

Re: [singularity] Counter-argument

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Davis
I was surprised there was no mention of innovation enabling innovations. Personally, I see the greatest benefit of the internet being the way it organizes and collects scientific information for anyone to use or innovate with. I know there is still a lot of junk out there on the web, but a p