Monday, May 22, 2006

KurzweilAI.net - Are We Guardians, Or Are We Apes Designing Humans?

KurzweilAI.net - Are We Guardians, Or Are We Apes Designing Humans?:
"Thanks in part to molecular manufacturing, accelerated developments in AI and brain reverse-engineering could lead to the emergence of superintelligence in just 18 years. Are we ready for the implications -- like possible annihilation of Homo sapiens? And will we seem to superintelligence what our ape-like ancestors seem to us: primitive?"