Wow! >http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,43080,00.html > > Making HAL Your Pal > by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > 2:00 a.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT > > Eliezer Yudkowsky has devoted his young life to an undeniably unusual > pursuit: planning for what happens when computers become far smarter > than us. > > [...] > > One solution: Unconditional "friendliness," built into the AI as > surely as our genes are coded into us. > He'll probably claim to have never read I Robot. > "I've devoted my life to this," says Yudkowsky, a self-proclaimed > "genius" who lives in Atlanta and opted out of attending high school > and college. > > Vinge is the closest thing Singularitians have to a thought leader, > spokesman and hero. He offers predictions based on measures of > technological progress such as Moore's Law, and sees the Singularity > as arriving between 2005 and 2030 -- though some Vinge aficionados > hope the possibility of uploading their brains into an immortal > computer is just around the corner. > Would that be L. Ron Vinge? > In an autobiographical essay, he writes: "I think my efforts could > spell the difference between life and death for most of humanity, or > even the difference between a Singularity and a lifeless, sterilized > planet... I think that I can save the world, not just because I'm the > one who happens to be making the effort, but because I'm the only one > who can make the effort." > A God complex. Way Cool. I'll bet his father was Einstein, his mother Marie Curie. Why do I feel the name Walter Mitty should be somewhere in this picture too. Wait, here come the men in the ice cream suits! ROTFLMAO. This sure was a nice little break from CPU guts. Thanks Declan, Mike
