Glenn Reynolds On AI
As usual. Glenn Reynolds shilled his latest New York Post column on Instapundit this morning: What if AIs set out to conquer the world . . . with love? His most unintentionally insightful observation: [L]et’s face it, you don’t need a 120,000 IQ to fool humans. Or even a 120 one. If I had to guess, as I've said before, I'd put that man's own IQ at not much higher than 120 himself, allowing for his Yale Law degree and that he passed a bar exam, but in most areas, he's just not that smart. As I pointed out the other day, he believes in Ray Kurzweil's Technological Singularity, in which individual human consciousnesses will upload into a giant computer by 2045 or so (or something like that), but in case that doesn't happen, he has a contract with Alcor to freeze (or "vitrify") his head upon his death, because at some point in the future, "science" will have found a way to resuscitate his brain and bring his body back to life. Somehow ...