It seems that a lot of the/. people are pessimistic about AI emergence. Understandably so.
However, it seems to me that this "technology" might come to be as a "Eureka!" type situation- not something that slowly evolves from prior R&D, but something that is conceived of as a whole and is created in an instant- like Faraday's discovery of the Benzine ring via a dream, or Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
just my 0.02$
Reverend Gaddy
Every time I am reminded of the Burgess shale I think of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and the "Great Race of Yith". That multi-tubular bag of protoplasm *must* have been the inspiration for this bit of the Mythos cannon.
Thanks for the reminder (shudder...) S.H.
Rev. G
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It seems that a lot of the /. people are pessimistic about AI emergence. Understandably so.
However, it seems to me that this "technology" might come to be as a "Eureka!" type situation- not something that slowly evolves from prior R&D, but something that is conceived of as a whole and is created in an instant- like Faraday's discovery of the Benzine ring via a dream, or Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
just my 0.02$
Reverend Gaddy
Every time I am reminded of the Burgess shale I think of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and the "Great Race of Yith". That multi-tubular bag of protoplasm *must* have been the inspiration for this bit of the Mythos cannon. Thanks for the reminder (shudder...) S.H. Rev. G