Today, artificial intelligence, once the preserve of science fiction writers and eccentric computer prodigies, is back in fashion and getting serious attention from NASA and from Silicon Valley companies like Google as well as a new round of start-ups that are designing everything from next-generation search engines to machines that listen or that are capable of walking around in the world.
Despite the ongoing nerdgasm promoted by people like Kurzweil, some are more skeptical:
The computer designer and venture capitalist William Joy, for example, wrote a pessimistic essay in Wired in 2000 that argued that humans are more likely to destroy themselves with their technology than create a utopia assisted by superintelligent machines.
Maybe- just maybe- we should try to better understand our own organic supercomputers (and where they originate) rather than creating technology which will inevitably be put to mischievous ends.
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