drethelin comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 11 May 2012 05:01:49PM 2 points [-]

For the same reason that a personal assistant is vastly more useful and powerful than a PDA, even though they might nominally serve the same function of remembering phone numbers, appointments, etc. people are extremely likely to want to create agent AIs.