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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by ThomPete on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:20PM (#18962780)
I don't think humans can beat the record, but technology? That's another matter all together.

Again our own consciousness wasn't created it emerged which means that we are a product of this emergence.

Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by rafiki6 on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:36PM (#18962914)
Technology at this time is nothing but an extension of human will. There is no indication or path that it has yet left our grasp. Therefore we are the limiting factor. Just as nature or the divine might have been the will that allowed us to emerge.
Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by baq on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:58PM (#18963986)
but if it ever leaves our grasp, you won't notice when it outpaces us, it's going to be so quick.