timtyler comments on What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 20 June 2010 01:35:43PM 1 point [-]

The Ford Airplane Company did get in on aeroplanes - but in the 1920s. In 1910 there was no aeroplane business.

For the inventors of machine intelligence, I figure you have to look back to people like Alan Turing. What we are seeing now is more like the ramping up of an existing industrial process. Creating very smart agents is better seen as being comparable to breaking the sound barrier.