Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? (2000)(www.youtube.com)
2 pointsby so-cal-schemer9 hours ago2 comments
  • so-cal-schemer9 hours ago
    "Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?"

    A symposium held at Stanford University on April 2000, hosted by Douglas Hofstdter (Gödel, Escher, Bach) featuring panelists:

    Ray Kurzweil (author of The Age of Spiritual Machines)

    Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems)

    Hans Moravec (author of Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind)

    John Holland (pioneer in genetic algorithms)

    Kevin Kelly (exec. editor for Wired magazine)

    Frank Drake (founder of SETI)

    Ralph Merkle (inventor of public key cryptography, crypto hashing)

    John Koza (pioneer genetic programming)

    • so-cal-schemer9 hours ago
      I attended this and was going to post something about it last year for the 25th anniversary. Better late than never..

      (I met a lot of heroes that day..)

      Was anybody else on HN there? Capacity in the auditorium was probably less than 300, but many were standing in the aisles.

  • silverFork8 hours ago
    Robots uttering mumbo-jumbo and having followers will be a site to see. I will be not that hard to make a see robot levitating off the ground and saying mmmm. Ai wont even leave spirituality that humans invented to process their trauma with gobbledygook alone.