I can easily see AI as being the next fusion. "We'll have it thirty years from now". I remember a usenet poster confidently proclaiming based on development in computer science that the Singularity was merely six months away. That was about five years ago.
I also see a number of dodgy assumptions in exactly what AI would be capable of, along the lines of "We program an AI, it immediately programs and creates a smarter AI, which programs and creates an even smarter AI, so that in minutes we get a Singularity." Can you count the unwarranted assumptions there?
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I can easily see AI as being the next fusion. "We'll have it thirty years from now". I remember a usenet poster confidently proclaiming based on development in computer science that the Singularity was merely six months away. That was about five years ago.
I also see a number of dodgy assumptions in exactly what AI would be capable of, along the lines of "We program an AI, it immediately programs and creates a smarter AI, which programs and creates an even smarter AI, so that in minutes we get a Singularity." Can you count the unwarranted assumptions there?