Chris comments on Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2007 07:45AM

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Comment author: Chris 29 November 2007 12:52:05PM 0 points [-]

I strongly encourage any AI worker who hasn't already done so to read Ian McDonald's 'River of Gods'. He's pretty positive (in timescale terms...) on AI, his answer to the question "How long will it be until we have human-level AI?" is 2047 AD, and it's a totally gob-smacking, brilliant, read.

Comment author: taryneast 13 February 2011 12:11:45PM 0 points [-]

Is this the one you mean: River of gods ?

if so - it's a novel... and it includes aliens... I admit I haven't read it, but I'm skeptical as to how much you might deduce about AI's likelihood...