Clippy comments on The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 01 August 2011 02:59:07PM 4 points [-]

An ICBM is "just" a bow-and-arrow system with a more precise guidance system, more energy available to spend reaching its destination, and a more destructive payload.

Comment author: brazil84 01 August 2011 07:38:50PM 1 point [-]

Right, and it's far more difficult to construct. It probably took thousands of years between the first missile weapons and modern ICBMs. I doubt that it will take thousands of years to create general AI, but it's still the same concept.

The first general AI will probably be "just" an algorithm running on a digital computer.