Near the beginning of this discussion, reference is made to the generally poor
mainstream press response to the recent Singularity conference. Does anyone
have link(s) to any general press reviews, journalistic coverage, etc? I
haven't had much luck in locating any and would like to get a
I have to applaud this comment, and it's general tenor.
-- Original message from Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Every speculation on this board about the nature of future AGI's has been
pure fantasy. Even those which try to dress themselves up in some semblance
Richard,
Kindly just let it go. I'm new to the list and not really familiar with
everyone's idiosyncracies. What I was applauding was what I perceive as his
remark's unwillingness to consider as somehow passe and irrelevent the
particularly human concerns and real pragmatic human
Interesting how people see in the same data what they are predisposed to. I
ride the tongue-in-cheek mood of the essay till his last three paragraphs and
then focus in upon the ironic conclusions, like where he equates narrowness to
individualism, and subtly bemoans the attack on autonomy.
I request to be admitted to the proposed list for purely journalistic and
cultural observation reasons.
My background in AI is limited to some expert systems work in the late 80's and
also three years of work with a linguistic start-up working on the problem of
natural language Machine
