>when people we convinced that machines could bootstrap themselves into contraptions that could move mountains.
With our modern construction equipment, we do move mountains.
Re:The Great A.I. Awakening
by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:18AM
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>> With our modern construction equipment, we do move mountains.
We do- using machines; not machines themselves.
Eh, depends what you mean by that exactly.
Many of these machines can be programmed to follow a primary human driven machine and replicate the task. Other machines are piloted by a human, but the human does far less work someone that used 'manual hydraulic' equipment of many generations ago. You can 'program' a few sets of moves in them and then only slightly adjust the equipment on each pass as the equipment does that work.
I don't know what the future holds, but the fact that undecidable problems always seem to involve Turing Machines either designing or inspecting other Turing machines makes me suspect that singularity won't be the explosion some expect.