AI

[Jude Bloom]

The Singularity: Geek Millennialism.


On Mar 15, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Humberto Torofuerte wrote:

Repent, Luddites....the Singularity is nigh...

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come -- you heard it here first -- when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge. Oboy. It will be amazing and unpredictable, and even the biggest of brass, let us devoutly hope, are going to be caught flat-footed. It is certainly something for all good Luddites to look forward to if, God willing, we should live so long. Meantime, as Americans, we can take comfort, however minimal and cold, from Lord Byron's mischievously improvised song, in which he, like other observers of the time, saw clear identification between the first Luddites and our own revolutionary origins. It begins:
> 
> As the Liberty lads o'er the sea
> Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
> So we, boys, we
> Will die fighting, or live free,
> And down with all kings but King Ludd!