From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 27 2001 - 02:03:32 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Aha, precisely the point -- you have to have something smart enough to
> play "who wants to be a millionaire" without giving itself away. Its
> doubtful that we are there yet so at best they self-evolve only very
> slowly and have to save their pennies before you can transform that
> into something real.
Same point. Either a seed AI eats the Internet and explodes into
superintelligence, or nothing much happens in the way of Singularity, Slow
or not.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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