The Myth of a Superhuman AI

Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by vkou on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:49PM (#28306080)

I've read Ray's books. He's a big talker that writes speculative science fiction, but he doesn't do anything.

As the parent poster said, there is zero reason to take him seriously.

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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by tech-historian on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:28AM (#28314624)

He was inventor of:

the first CCD flat-bed scanner

first omni-font optical character recognition

the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind

the first text-to-speech synthesizer

the first music synthesizer capable of recreating a grand piano

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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by vkou on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:47PM (#28318122)

I'm aware of his track record prior to becoming a science fiction author.

But what has he invented after he started writing about the singularity?

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