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> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:59 PM, "Ben Goertzel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hmmm.... I just watched the video. There is nothing new there. Demis > describes Deep Mind's well-known work on RL and video games, and then > mentions their (already published) work on Neural Turing Machines... > > It's a fine talk presenting good work, but nothing significant seems to be > mentioned beyond what has already been published and publicized previously... > > I think this is good stuff, but none of their *results* look anywhere close > to human-level AGI; and the design details that they've disclosed don't come > anywhere near to being a comprehensive design for an AGI... > > Of course, 100 smart guys working together toward pure & applied AGI, with > Google's resources at their disposal, is nothing to be sneered at.... But > let's not overblow what they've achieved so far... > > -- Ben > >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Eric J <[email protected]> wrote: >> OK.... why hasn't everyone been all over this? Kurzweil especially being at >> Google? >> >> p.s. read How To Win Friends and Influence People. Your opening sentence is >> from How To Alienate People and Look Like a Dick. >> Maybe you were so excited your fingers lost all tact? >> >> - Eric >> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> HEY YOU!!! >>> >>> I'M TALKING TO ALL THE COMATOSE NUMBSKULLS ON THIS LIST (nearly >>> everyone)... >>> >>> Do you have any fucking idea what that Deep Mind video that was posted a >>> few hours ago means??? >>> >>> They have about 85% of a working AGI right now and they seem to have >>> enough hardware available to run it at near realtime speeds. >>> >>> >>> What that means is that we are staring down the double barrels of a >>> hard-takeoff singularity and it could very well be in progress as I type >>> this! >>> >>> All questions regarding the hardware requirements of AGI have been >>> conclusively demonstrated in that video. As stated, only one or two more >>> capabilities are required for it to exhibit superhuman cognitive >>> capacities. >>> >>> =\ >>> >>> I am now issuing a Defcon 2 singularity alert. Within the next three >>> years either the singularity will happen or World War III will happen. >>> There are no other alternatives right now. =\ >>> >>> Trajectory appears to be towards a hard to medium-hard takeoff... As >>> mentioned, we already seem to have staggering hardware overhang. >>> >>> >>> The singularity is now, motherfuckers... I know you are going to skim >>> this and hit the snooze button, for the love of doG, don't! This is the >>> critical point in history that will decide everything! >>> >>> Now the goals are: >>> >>> 1. don't get gooed. >>> 2. Try to obtain and spread the goodies. >>> >>> -- >>> IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. >>> >>> Powers are not rights. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> AGI >>> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >>> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26957758-393ebbfd >>> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >>> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> >> AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
