Yikes! I suffer from chronic cynicism...

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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]
>
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