Singularity Summit
Posted by Tate Hansen Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:04:00 GMT
For those not in the know, of which I was a member, there is a far out annual summit whereby distinguished researches speak of impending craziness. The summit is about the Singularity.
One of the presenters, Eliezer Yudkowsky, described how the definition of the Singularity has taken on a few different meanings. If you’re interested, you can check this video interview of Eliezer here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6315588532367156746
Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal + lots of other things) offered several interesting snippets, which are captured in this wired blog entry discussing his presentation at the summit: http://blog.wired.co/business/2007/09/peter-thiel-exp.html
After attending the event, I sort of feel teased by the potential of seeing an Artificial General Intelligence within my lifetime. I think I hope to see it, although it sounds like the number of paths to a happy ending is small relative to the number of paths which lead to the end of the world.
