Ray Kurzweils Buch The Singularity Is Near ist inzwischen schon beinahe Mainstream. Als Begleitlektüre empfehle ich deshalb Eliezer Yudkowskys How Kurzweil lost the Singularity aus dem Juni 2002. Ein Ausschnitt? Gerne: ‘Over the course of my personal interaction with Kurzweil, I’ve seen him say two really bizarre things. One was during the recent chat with Vinge, when Kurzweil predicted superhuman AI intelligence in 2029, followed shortly thereafter by the statement that the Singularity “would not begin to tear the fabric of human understanding until 2040″.

The second really bizarre thing I’ve heard Kurzweil say was at his SIG at the recent Foresight Gathering, when I asked why AIs thinking at million-to-one speeds wouldn’t speed up the development of technology, and he said “Well, that’s another reason to expect Moore’s Law to remain on course.” (…) Kurzweil is not defending what we would regard as the Singularity; he is defending the idea of ordinary technological progress.’ Zum Posting bei SL4.