Friday, September 7, 2007

Singularity

In today's SJMerc, the biz section featured a Q&A with a gentleman who deals in Artificial Intelligence and the concept of singularity. There is a total lack of intelligence in the whole piece. It has to do with computers getting so smart they they eventually take over the world. As an example how things change radically over time he mentions that no one could have predicted nuclear bombs destroying whole cities but it came to be. He fails to mention that man gave the order to be dropped. The bomb is not even the sum of its parts until man gets involved. He mentions how the future will be unpredictable and possibly dangerous to mankind. I guess nobody told him about global warming. Of course its going to be dangerous. Hello!
He goes on to state that if more people invested in this concept he wouldn't have to invest as much of his own money. Somebody please tell this rocket scientist that as soon as I have more money than I can spen in a lifetime maybe I'll start investing in nebulous concepts. In the meantime make sure to hire people who know where to shut the machines off.

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