ChrisHallquist comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong
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Yes. But not enough to make it feel like the story is moving towards a conclusion.
They will be incremental, enough so that very, very few people will notice any practical impact on their lives. Some advances, however, will be accompanied by a great deal of hype. Evidence will emerge that some treatments which we think work now do not in fact work.
I will continue to believe cryonics is something I would sign up for if I had money to spare, but will also continue to feel too poor to have money to spare.
This isn't really about AGI, but I expect to be amazed by at least one cool new application of computing that vaguely resembles human intelligence.