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Michael_Howell comments on What was your biggest recent surprise? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: DataPacRat 09 June 2012 11:57PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 05:23:29AM *  10 points [-]

I think my biggest recent surprise was the notion that AI didn't have to be sentient to be worth taking seriously. Seemed like such a simple idea to overlook but it totally changed my worldview.

Comment author: CasioTheSane 10 June 2012 05:44:25AM 31 points [-]

I find it striking that Google and Wolfram Alpha are more useful at helping people answer questions than greater than human intelligence AI was imagined to be in most older sci-fi novels.