[extropy-chat] Timescale to Singularity

[The Avantguardian]

--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> A Chinese AI would be able to spare a few cycles to
> beat Stuart at Go,
> while as a first step helping the Chinese to make
> safe places for it
> to live in, well distributed to avoid possible
> attacks. What it will
> choose to do after that is anybody's guess.

LOL. You think an A.I. will have any respect for
ethnicity or national boundaries? That's as silly as
Germans hoping that the whole breed of german
shepherds would have loyalty to the Motherland. The
A.I. may choose to be friendly to some specific
Chinese people. But to an A.I., a monkey is a monkey,
no matter what shape its eyes are. As far as the go
game, let me know when the A.I. feels up to the challenge.

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson

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