KatjaGrace comments on Superintelligence 15: Oracles, genies and sovereigns - Less Wrong

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Comment author: KatjaGrace 23 December 2014 02:06:03AM 2 points [-]

Do you think there will be a period in the future where most things are done by humans assisted by 'genies' (or 'super-butlers')? (p149)

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 23 December 2014 11:20:04AM 4 points [-]

Given the amount I use google, spellcheckers, machine learning and so forth, this seems weakly true already. Of course, driverless cars for example will only increase this, and AFAIK far more progress is being made on really useful narrow AI than on AGI.