256 Shades of Gray On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having my computer write a book about computer experience. It's called > "On the Line". Unfortunately it's very dull...no sex. > > Brent > > > On 6/18/2017 4:47 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> The "writing books" category seems a bit silly. Which books? The >> technical manual of a programming language? Or something like "On the >> Road"? And how can a non-human entity be better than humans at writing >> about the human experience? And even if it is, doesn't it just become >> a deception? >> >> Telmo. >> >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 11:53 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> A recent survey was conducted by the University of Oxford of 352 >>> prominent >>> AI researchers , this is the average prediction on when they think AI >>> will >>> outperform humans at var >>> ious >>> >>> tasks: >>> >>> Translate languages better than humans = 2024 >>> Write high school level essays better than human high schoolers = 2026 >>> Drive trucks better than humans = 2027 >>> Work in retail = 2031 >>> Write books = 2049 >>> Perform surgery = 2053 >>> Be better than humans at everything = 2062 >>> >>> By the way, at about the same time another survey was taken that showed >>> 7% >>> of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. >>> >>> John K Clark >>> >>> -- >>> 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >
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