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

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Comment author: brazil84 31 July 2011 08:19:58PM -1 points [-]

The whole thing ultimately had to produce one answer, after all. It just wasn't good enough.

Ok, then arguably it's not so simple to create an algorithm which is "just more complicated." I mean, one could say that an ICBM is just like a Quassam rocket, but just more complicated.

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.