RE: greatest threats to survival (was: why believe the truth?)

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 12:59:38 MDT

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    On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ramez Naam wrote:

    > > 1) What is the probability of General AI in the next 20 years
    > > of *either* friendly or unfriendly variety?
    >
    > It seems rather low to me. There is no evidence of a fundamental
    > design breakthrough in the field of AI[*].

    Actually Mez, there is a recent announcement by a Paul Allen
    "skunkworks" that was working with Cyc and several other groups
    that there has been a significant improvement in field specific
    AI (or at least reasoning and drawing conclusions). If Google
    can't find it let me know and I'll dig out the reference.

    Robert



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