On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote: > PM: Will "everyone" have access to a personal robot? really? I dont' think > so. Not everyone has a PC or cell phone > or internet access, today.
75% of the world population has a cell phone. http://www.rferl.org/content/report-says-75-percent-of-worlds-population-have-mobile-phones/24648234.html 35% of the world has internet access. This increases by 4% of the world population each year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage > "We need to let robots take over. They will do jobs we have been doing, and > do them much better than > we can. They will do jobs we can’t do at all. They will do jobs we never > imagined even needed to be done. > And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand > who we are. They will let us > focus on becoming more human than we were." - Kurzweil > > PM: If this is truly the case, then why fear the Singularity? The day they > take over? > Why not do as Kurzweil suggests and go with the flow? Ahhh, there's > the rub. Robot doing our work is not the Singularity. The next step is to replace our brains and bodies with robots in order to achieve the belief of immortality. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
