Technological singularity here and now
July 10th, 2008
Image via WikipediaI worry about many things but I don’t worry about technological singularity thing. I discovered just recently on twitter that this term even exists. My response on twitter sums it ok:
@someperson - meh, until people think AIML is about AI you have to fear squirrels surpassing human intellect more than computros 
Not that good example but if you want to see how stupid computers can be watch this video (this guy tries to write a small pearl script using vista voice recognition.. MEGA FAIL):
But I admit they are almost surpassing the humans ability to make me laugh.
And another thought. Did you ever hear the quote.
"These next-gen games... they keep improving graphics but AI in this [insert latest FPS] is as dumb as few years back. Why the hell don’t they work on AI at least 30% as on graphics”.
I can try to answer (but don’t take this for granted if you have some I).
Because they can't, because we don't know how to make a better functional AI yet. And most of what you see in these advanced games is not much of "AI" anyway, it's just smoke and mirrors that gives an impression of some intelligent behaviour.
