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<br><a href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/01/kurzweils-2009-predictions/" target="_blank">http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/01/kurzweils-2009-predic</a>tions<</span></span></font><div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;">Well, his success rate is better than Nostradamus. But then again, he's not relying on a fickle daemon for results. I think what he has to say about Watson and the Turing Test is valid, and rather simply put, regardless of the predictions. Dealing with the complexity of language is a better indicator of intelligence and closer to passing the test than dealing with the purely mathematical game tree complexity of chess.</span></span></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:19:21AM -0400, Darren Greer wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110120/tc_zd/259558" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110120/tc_zd/259558</a><br>
><br>
> John will like this. Kurzweil says in his opening salve some of what he's<br>
> been saying in the Watson threads.<br>
><br>
> "In *The Age of Intelligent Machines*, which I wrote in the mid 1980s, I<br>
> predicted that a computer would defeat the world chess<br>
</div>> champion<<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110120/tc_zd/259558#" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110120/tc_zd/259558#</a>> by<br>
<div class="im">> 1998. My estimate was based on the predictable exponential growth of<br>
> computing power (an example of what I now call the "law of accelerating<br>
> returns") and my estimate of what level of computing was needed to achieve a<br>
> chess rating of just under 2800 (sufficient to defeat any human, although<br>
> lately the best human chess scores have inched above 2800). I also predicted<br>
> that when that happened we would either think better of computer<br>
> intelligence, worse of human thinking, or worse of chess, and that if<br>
> history was a guide, we would downgrade chess."<br>
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</div><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/04/kurzweil-defends-his-predictions-again-was-he-86-correct/" target="_blank">http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/04/kurzweil-defends-his-predictions-again-was-he-86-correct/</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/01/kurzweils-2009-predictions/" target="_blank">http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/01/kurzweils-2009-predictions/</a><br>
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