Re: Singularity and AIs -software

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 04:13:45 MST


Spike Jones wrote:

> Entropyfoe@aol.com wrote:
>
> To me this seems true, silicon, and new nanotechnology relentlessly
> advances hardware. But software seems more of the same. I think it
> is less amenable to automation than say wafer fabrication. -Jay
>
> Whatever happened to that big software automation tool that was
> supposed to be a big deal by Steven Wolfram? Has he made any
> more comments on it lately? Seems he disappeared off the radar
> screen. spike
>

It is not a software automation tool. It is a way to capture
more and better models of the universe using software functions
as I understand it. I haven't seen anything that says it helps
in the creation and maintenance of software, much less automates
such creation.

- samantha



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