Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by senordevnyc on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:32PM
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Exact same here. Now I worry he was right about everything, more or less.
Even if he turns out to be a decade or two off, that’s basically exactly correct in the sweep of history sense.
Wild time to be alive.
Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by tim333 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:23AM
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I've read most of Kurzweil's books and been a believer in the Moore's law like stuff but always skeptical on the nanobots. He takes ideas from a variety of sources and the nanobot idea seems to be quite questionable.
Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by gwbas1c on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:18AM
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> You need robots that can build robots and for them to be able to mine asteroids and build factories in space and then it's all go. I'm not sure it's that far off. A decade or two maybe?
Maybe a few centuries at the earliest? My 3d printer is temperamental enough that I don't think we're anywhere close to a robot building itself in space. (I use it infrequently and it needed a repair after a year.)
You might want to look at "A City on Mars". A lot of people are really letting their imagination run away when it comes to space; and the book succinctly pops that bubble: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984881728?lv=shuf&channelId=500&p...
I read it about 20 years ago, and once it got into nanobots and Kurzweil's vision that the whole universe would be intelligent, I didn't find the book credible.
But I'm wondering if the short-term prediction, that in the 2030s we won't be able to anticipate what tech does for us, (IE, the Singularity,) is useful?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near