[extropy-chat] Serenity: "...make people better."

[Dirk Bruere]

On 10/14/05, Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
>
> Spike wrote,
>
> > Let us keep in mind that at some level, humans are
> > all in competition with each other.
>
> Noticing the recent successes in the DARPA car race
> (as well as the fact that software can "understand"
> speech, can speak, and rewrite news articles) people
> should realize that the competition down the road
> is going to be wish computer software & AIs not
> so much with other humans. For example -- how long
> before all truck drivers are replaced with "driving"
> software? 5 years? 10 years? One of the reasons
>

I've been hearing that since the 1960s.
The answer is "not this side of the singularity".

Dirk
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