P1110401 Doug Lenat on Singularity

On "The Singularity: Humanity's Huge Techno Challenge" panel Doug Lenat talks about forces pushing us towards technological Singularity, as one can see in this slide. Among those forces are: demand for competitive, cutting edge software applications (commercial and government); demand for personal assistants, such as SIRI, but enhanced; demand for "smarter" AI in games; mass vetting of errorful learned knowledge, such as in Wikipedia.

Read more about the Singularity panel in my blog.