There is something incredibly creepy about watching a supercomputer beat the best human players at Jeopardy. For neophytes: writing a computer program that plays Jeopardy is a super hard problem, and this is nothing less than totally amazing. The hardware …More
Tag: singularity
The Singularity is Near
October 7, 2005
Haha. Just kidding. Ray Kurzweil’s new book, The Singularity is Near is just so… meh. It’s not even good enough to bother providing you guys a link to it. To those not in the know, you should look up the …More
An argument against the Singularity
July 14, 2005
First off, WikiPedia is awesome. A brilliant idea. WikiPedia “Technological Singularity“:In future studies, a technological singularity is a predicted time at which technological progress accelerates beyond the ability of present-day humans to fully comprehend or predict. Such a singularity was …More
