Tag: Ray Kurzweil and Singularity

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News
Date
August 3, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Gary Marcus on generative AI bubble, HAL 9000, Ray Kurzweil and Singularity, Robert J. Marks on AI and creativity, Sam Altman on chatbots future, Steven Pinker}

Why the Artificial Intelligence Bubble May Be About To Burst

_{For one thing, Space Odyssey’s HAL and Prometheus’s David aren’t really happening, for good reasons} _{News
August 3, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Gary Marcus argues that Big Tech got rich, largely on promises, without confronting the known limits of artificial intelligence. Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
June 18, 2022

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind, Science Fiction, Transhumanism

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Evelyn Caster (character in Transcendence), Featured, Max Waters (character in Transcendence), Ray Kurzweil and Singularity, Will Caster (character in Transcendence)}

Review: Transcendence — The Soul Meets the Singularity

_{In Part 1 of my review of the 2014 classic, we start with the question: Can a human mind be completely transferred to a computer?} _{Gary Varner
June 18, 2022

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Philosophy of Mind, Science Fiction, Transhumanism}

Since Johnny Depp has been all over the news lately, this would be a great time to review his contribution to the world of sci-fi, Transcendence (2014), or as I like to call it, “Oh Great. Now, We Have to Kill the Internet.” The movie plays on two themes. First, there is the idea that futurist Ray Kurzweil calls the Singularity, a moment where AI surpasses humanity. Second, the movie explores two closely related questions: Is there a soul, and does this soul reside within the brain? Johnny Depp’s character, Will Caster, does not believe in the soul, but he does recognize that there is some unmapped region within biological life that allows a human to distinguish between right and Read More ›