komponisto comments on IBM's "Watson" program to compete against "Jeopardy" champions tonight - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 16 February 2011 03:13:23PM 2 points [-]

I know this is not at all anything like general AI

I'll confess that I still have a hard time shaking the intuition that this is how general AI will be arrived at, if and when it is: a bunch of things like this, more impressive with each generation, until it gradually occurs to us over the course a few decades or centuries that our computers can do everything we can do.

Comment author: MartinB 07 March 2011 07:16:23PM 0 points [-]

That describes the notion of non-sentient actors that adapt perfectly to the human living environment. A somewhat terrifying idea.