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Originally Posted by MarkFL

I'm not really taking about that one aspect of the singularity...I'm talking about artificial intelligence growing virtually unbounded. How will a mind vastly superior to our own regard us? I think a clue might be taken in how we regard most creatures whose minds are inferior to ours. We keep some as pets, eat others, exterminate those we find to be pests and show little regard for the well-being of all others.

Certainly we are all entitled to our own opinions on this, but I'm not willing to say a problem is insurmountable because it appears at the moment to be extremely complex.

My hope is that we will build minds who are to problem solving as automobiles are to walking. They will allow us to get much farther in a shorter time, but would still be under our direction.

The singularity may happen in 5 thousand years, but not anytime soon. I am not saying it will never happen, but i am saying that it won't for a long time.