Singularitarians often accuse the AI establishment of a certain close-mindedness. I always suspected that this was the usual biased accusation of rebels against the old guard.
Although I have nothing new to add, I'd like to give some confirmatory evidence on this from one who is not involved in AGI research. When I recently met a PhD in AI from one of the top three programs in the world, I expected some wonderful nuggets of knowledge on the future of AGI, if only as speculations, but I just heard the establishment line as described by Kurzweil et al.: AI will continue to solve narrow problems, always working in tandem with humans who will handle important part of the tasks.There is no need, and no future, for human-level AI. (I responded, by the way, that there is obviously a demand for human-level intelligence, given the salaries that we knowledge-workers are paid.) I was quite surprised, even though I had been prepped for exactly this. Joshua ----- 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/?list_id=11983
