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1. Comment by cranky-d on 2/16 @ 3:15 pm #

   While I don’t know as much about AI as this guy, I do know a bit. My prediction is that human level intelligence in a computer program is a long way off, if it ever comes.

   Just getting a computer with a camera attached to understand what it’s looking it is currently not feasible. A machine cannot generalize like a human.

2. Comment by Dan Collins on 2/16 @ 3:18 pm #

   Yeah, but it can generalize like a troll, right?

3. Comment by happyfeet on 2/16 @ 3:18 pm #

   I think a machine what can say Yes We Can is probably something I’ll see in my lifetime though.

4. Comment by guinsPen on 2/16 @ 3:41 pm #

   My prediction is that human level intelligence in a computer program is a long way off, if it ever comes.

   How about in the District of Columbia?

5. Comment by cranky-d on 2/16 @ 4:39 pm #

   If you’re looking for a machine that can troll, I think that’s completely do-able with current technology, since you can program in the trollishness. It would tend to repeat itself, but so do trolls. All you need is some language processing, which isn’t perfect, but then again, trolls miss the point all the time too.

   I guess the only thing standing in the way is a market.

   It’s the same with a “Yes We Can” machine, I think. I’m not sure if there is that much original thought going on there either.

6. Comment by serr8d on 2/16 @ 5:24 pm #

   Confronting that age-old question…what separates a href=”http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cyberanthropos.html”>life from nonlife?
   

   As we miniaturize the nanocircuitry for our computers more and more, approaching ever closer to the threshold for quantum mechanics to “take over,” we may be surprised to find that we are on the verge of observing the sudden “phase transition” that may have produced life from nonlife aeons ago…

   Well, it would help if we could discount our souls, and view our brains as programmable ‘wetware’. Souls aren’t much in vogue today, anyways.

   Oh, and ‘anthropocybersynchronicity’.

   For the rhythm!

   (BTW, AI trolls sere introduced in LOTR; a MASSIVE undertaking…

7. Comment by serr8d on 2/16 @ 5:25 pm #

   life

8. Comment by Drumwaster on 2/16 @ 7:00 pm #

   The limiting factor for nanotechnology is software. It has to be 100% bug-free and crash-proof; 99.999999999+% is simply not good enough. As Spider Robinson put it, “If the software controlling nanobots were as stable as, say, the most popular word-processor program currently available, the world would be turned into gray goo sometime next Thursday…”

9. Comment by McGehee on 2/16 @ 7:15 pm #

   Machines in our brains to make us smarter.

   Running Vista.

10. Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 2/16 @ 7:53 pm #

    Datadave cannot be happy about this development.

11. Comment by Obamaniac on 2/16 @ 8:07 pm #

    Yes, we can!

12. Comment by Obamaníaco on 2/16 @ 8:13 pm #

    ¡Si, se puede!

13. Comment by Fanatiker des Obamas on 2/16 @ 8:17 pm #

    Ja, wir können!

14. Comment by Fanatique d'Obama on 2/16 @ 8:18 pm #

    Oui, nous pouvons !

15. Comment by Dan Collins on 2/16 @ 8:25 pm #

    Raise your hand if you’re Sure!

16. Comment by Dan Collins on 2/16 @ 8:25 pm #

    You’re not fully clean until you’re O-Bama! clean!

17. Comment by Swen Swenson on 2/16 @ 9:13 pm #

    My prediction is that human level intelligence in a computer program is a long way off, if it ever comes.

    You must not be dealing with the same humans that I do..

18. Comment by J. Peden on 2/16 @ 10:17 pm #

    Kurzweil doesn’t seem to realize that the Trolls have already beat him to the perfection of artificial intelligence.

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