http://blog.clearnetsec.com/articles/2007/09/10/singularity-summit en-us 40 <p> 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 <a href="http://www.singinst.org/overview/whatisthesingularity/">Singularity</a>. </p> <p> One of the presenters, <a href="http://www.singinst.org/summit2007/speakers/yudkowsky/">Eliezer Yudkowsky</a>, 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: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6315588532367156746">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6315588532367156746</a> </p> <p> 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: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/09/peter-thiel-exp.html">http://blog.wired.co/business/2007/09/peter-thiel-exp.html</a> </p> <p> 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. </p> Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:04:00 -0600 urn:uuid:a5dbe8cd-1728-45e5-809e-9b23f0ad8797 tate@ClearNetSec.com (Tate Hansen) http://blog.clearnetsec.com/articles/2007/09/10/singularity-summit ClearNet ClearNet Security Tate Hansen Singularity AGI ai artificial intelligence