[ExI] Vint Cerf on AI, at ORNL

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Dave Sill:

> Oh, you missed John's fan-email, "AlphaZero ?The ?Lucy? of the Emerging AI
> Epoch"?

John Clark did not write that, he just posted a link to a book review  
for "Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence" which is James  
Lovelock's new book. Considering Lovelock is the originator of the  
Gaia hypothesis, his new book is in keeping with his tendency for  
grandiose hyperbole. Who knows, maybe future historians will consider  
AlphaZero to be some significant ancestral form of AI.

Lovelock is over 100 years old and a cryonocist so maybe he is trying  
to curry favor with the future AGI so that he will be resurrected  
sooner rather than later. I don't think he is hyping the Singularity  
any more than Kurzweil and company. Remember what list this is after  
all. ;-)

Stuart LaForge