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

From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 13:47:36 MDT

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    An article about Paul Allen's Project Halo can be found here:

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/126622_vulcan14.html

    - Jef

    Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    > 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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