Hugo de Garis interview - Part 1 (2010-10-09 005)

[rememberwhite]

If someone is going to take down the human race by building robotic gods, why not have a nice guy like Hugo do it!

[D3ROXX]

I am afraid, but this man is dangerous !



[xavierpaquin]

I fell alseep listening to this yesterday... had the worst nightmares

[kazicimir]

is there a transcript of the interview available?

[bighands69]

I am not sure if his 2020 numbers stack up.

I think that he is to optimistic with the orange juice computing system. It will more than likely be the 2040 before that number is achieved in a discrete computational system.

[TheRationalFuture]

These interviews were done last year (2010), there are some new ones that have recently been done and just need editing.

[moonraven3]

Excellent interview! Too bad Hugo De Garis isn't getting as much media attention. I would like to see more news outlets interview this gentleman.

[dudesmcman]

i can totally picture him as a crazy red-eyed cyborg . . .

[dudesmcman]

i can totally picture him as a crazy red-eyed cyborg . . .

[rmeddy1]

I expect to see these thing (Artilects) to be more akin to beasts of burden than sapient in of themselves.

Just extensions of our will(ignoring P-Zombie issues)

much like a horse can allow us to run faster vicariously, these will help us compute faster but I don't see agency itself being there.

I'm not sure if this is better or worse than De Garis' scenario

[TheOthoudt]

Bringing a super intelligent computer into consciousness suddenly might overwhelm the poor thing and drive it mad. I think it would need the digital equivalent of a nurturing childhood.

[scantyrevery]

Remarkable depictions of our future.

[BeavisNacho]

What scale is beyond femto ??

nano, pico, femto .....

[TheRationalFuture]

@BeavisNacho atto? plank?

[Branstrom]

lol @ the last few seconds

[TheRationalFuture]

@Branstrom Whoops, it took a long time to find a room to interview Hugo. Tried the Melbourne Museum, got rejected, walked around with a massive cam in a big box with the stand all day it felt like. This was last year after the first singsum in australia.