[ExI] Ray Kurzweil's predictions regarding the Singularity

[John Grigg]

According to someone from another list who has a spouse in the
supercomputer field, we should be seeing a 30 petaflops machine by
around 2014.  And so Ray Kurzweil turns out to be just a few years
off!  : )  I realize he never meant for his dates to be set in stone,
but I'd like for the crucial predictions regarding computational
power, to be no more than five years off...

John

On 11/29/10, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:34 PM, John Grigg <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 30 petaflops a second
>
> FLOPS = floating point operations per second
>
> Sorry, that's one of my peeves.
>
> Regarding predictions for the singularity, I'm going to hold off on
> making one until flying cars are mainstream. :-) Just kidding. I'm
> going to hold off until we've got a dog-level AI.
>
> -Dave
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