From: rick (aperick@centurytel.net)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 22:47:39 MST
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From: "Erik Aronesty" <erik@zoneedit.com>
I'd like to restate a prediction I made on kurzweilai.net
Biological innovations will the primary drive behind all improvements in
intelligence, nanoassembly and more.
Visions of artificial intelligences as superior to men are much further
off because men will begin [to] enhance their own intellect firts -
rather than rely on AI.
Lilkewise, nanoassembly will be driven by genetically engineered
bacteria and other microorganisms...
Why reinvent the wheel?
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Yes, let us hope that this will be so. Pure AI seems both difficult and
scary! If anything is going to get super smart, I'd prefer that it to be
me first. And I felt so strongly about it that I wrote a novella about
it -- if you need to kill an hour or two you can read it at the website
listed in my signature.
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