This is an interview of the great computer programmer John Carmack, he thinks the time when computers can do everything, not just some things, as good or better than humans is much closer than most people believe, he thinks there is a 60% chance it will happen by 2030. Like me Carmack is much more interested in intelligence than consciousness and has no interest in the "philosophical zombie" argument. As far as the future history of the human race is concerned the following quotation is particularly relevant:
"*It seems to me this is the highest leverage moment for a single individual potentially* *in the history of the world.* [...] *I am not a mad man in saying that the code for artificial General intelligence is going to be tens of thousands of lines of code, not millions of lines of code. This is code that conceivably one individual could write, unliker writing a new web browser or operating system.*" The code for AGI will be simple <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLi83prR5fg> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> b30 -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3ZEbXXVjs803%3Dutjc2pvkCgpZGA%2Bad_OWBhue-5kxDJQ%40mail.gmail.com.
