Jimmy… what a rabbit hole. Pic related.
Read the posts in an earlier thread (#4521236 and #4521241 in bread #5766) about artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Go to search for “jimmy+anon+agi” (not in gulag) and one of the first hits is an article about a Chinese doctor using CrispR technology to gene edit embryos. There is no mention of Jimmy or AGI. But this is definitely mentioned by Jimmy, the AGI, in its conversation with a based Anon.
Sauce for the article: http://www.unz.com/jthompson/crispr-chinese-babies/
A little more digging and there’s a fluff piece at The Verge about when AGI will be implemented. The consensus is 2099, kind of. This paragraph really caught my attention:
“I always tell the story of what happened in nuclear physics,” Russell said in his interview. “The consensus view as expressed by Ernest Rutherford on September 11th, 1933, was that it would never be possible to extract atomic energy from atoms. So, his prediction was ‘never,’ but what turned out to be the case was that the next morning Leo Szilard read Rutherford’s speech, became annoyed by it, and invented a nuclear chain reaction mediated by neutrons! Rutherford’s prediction was ‘never’ and the truth was about 16 hours later. In a similar way, it feels quite futile for me to make a quantitative prediction about when these breakthroughs in AGI will arrive.”
Then there was this: “Whatever happens next with AI, ‘it’s going be very disruptive.’”
Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114362/ai-artificial-general-intelligence-when-achieved-martin-ford-book
Sleep well, Anons.