On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
* > So I'd say the threshold was passed sometime in the last couple > of years.* *I agree. AI is already smarter than even the smartest specialized human at some things and, except for manual dexterity, is better than the average human at everything. And unlike humans, AI keeps getting smarter every day. * > *> Bear in mind, in Kurzweil's timeline to the singularity in 2045* *Kurzweil's timeline has become confusing. As far as I know he has not changed his old prediction that the Singularity won't happen until 2045, but in a talk given just last year he said that the 2030s will be the decade when nanobots will begin connecting our neocortex to the cloud, and by 2040 our non-biological intelligence will be significantly greater than our biological intelligence. That sure sounds like a Singularity to me. * > *The real debate now is whether LLMs are truly creative.* *For at least the last five years computers have done things that if a Human had performed them there would be no debate whatsoever, everybody would agree it was creative. But for some people if a computer has done it then it is, by definition, not creative. But I think if that is the definition of the word "creative" then the word is not of much use. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 2zh > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3%3D36O0EwK3y6sk6xY4OAGt%3DWUOVGEJGGUBEKF6oaLVEg%40mail.gmail.com.
