Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Here's a link to the Wikipedia article on Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines". It lists some of the predictions he makes in the novel, such as when they begin to copy themselves or take/pass/fail the Turing Test... He seems like he's got a point when he says that non-biological intelligence will continue to grow exponentially whereas biological intelligence is effectively fixed.
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I think some of those things are already true today--such as students, at least college students, have access to computers 24/7 and there are cameras the size of pinheads.
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