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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday October 23 2016, @09:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-will-it-stop-for-coffee++? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Udacity President Sebastian Thrun speaking at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit.

Prepare for your car to become an intellectual giant -- and for you to like it.

In a highly optimistic forecast at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun said artificial intelligence will radically reshape our lives for the better.

"In the last 200 or 300 years, we have made ourselves into superhumans," able to plow a field a thousand times faster than our ancestors, fly across the Atlantic Ocean and talk to a person in Australia, he said. Artificial intelligence will take us to the next step: "Rather than replacing our muscles, we're going to be making our brains stronger."

That'll start with artificially intelligent cars, said Thrun, who rose to Silicon Valley fame in his former job leading Google's self-driving car project.

"All the unborn cars get born with the full wisdom of their forefathers. AI cars will outpace all of us because they can learn faster," said Thrun, still a Stanford professor and now president of online learning site Udacity.

Artificial intelligence is spreading like wildfire across the technology industry, screening out junk email, labeling our photos, translating foreign languages and helping us type faster. But not everybody is so sanguine about the possibility of AI machines taking over high-skilled jobs.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @02:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @02:47AM (#418018)
    That the Catholic Church still continues to chug along after two thousand years in spite of all of the bastards and assholes who have inhabited it over the centuries sort of says something. You'd think that someone as venal and corrupt as Pope Alexander VI would manage to destroy the Church, and there have been many popes just as bad or worse than he was. Over the past two thousand years nations and empires have risen and fallen, there have been schisms and wars, evil men have occupied the Throne of St. Peter, and yet, in spite of it all, the Catholic Church still somehow manages to endure.