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How would you put this quote in your own words?” and “What struck you about this quote?” “ever accelerating progress…gives the appearance of approaching some singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.” Pg. 233 “[w]ithin thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” pg. 233 “There is not the slightest reason to believe in a coming singularity. The fact that you can visualize a future in your imagination is not evidence that it is likely or even possible.” Pg. 237 “while our future in the real world will be challenging and there are real risks, there will be no such monster as the self-replicating mechanical nanobot of your dreams.” pg 245 “The extraordinary power of today’s computers combined with advances in specific areas of AI research, as well as in our understanding of the human brain, are generating a great deal of optimism.” pg 231 Question for Ford’s “Super-Intelligence and the Singularity” Chapter 1. According to Stephen Hawkings, what would be the biggest event in human history? (229) 2. What does “narrow” AI mean? (229-30) 3. What is the “Holy Grail of artificial intelligence” (230) 4. What is AGI? (231) 5. What percentage of researchers say strong/broad/AGI would never happen? (231) 6. What makes Ford think it’s not hyped this time? (231-2) 7. What happens to AGI once AGI is achieved? (232) 8. Why is comparing AGI to an alien appropriate? (232) 9. What makes Kurzweil a credible source? (234) 10. What are the two ways people suggest we may live forever? (235) 11. What makes Kurzweil a less than credible source? (235-7) 12. According to skeptics like Noam Chomsky, how long will it be before we build AGI? (236) 13. What do Steven Pinker and Gordon Moore say about it? (237) 14. What is one solution to the fear of AI? (238-9) 15. How might AI escape this solution? (239) 16. What might it threaten if it did escape? (239) 17.Explain the “first mover advantage” AGI would give. (239) 18. Even if they are friendly, what impact would AGI have on the economy? (240) 19. Are you afraid of AI? Why/why not?