“Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’ “
Embarrassing dreck from the Guardian in this AI hype piece.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai-artificial-intelligence-world-diseases-climate-scenarios-experts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Here, Ray Kurzweil not only ignores the biology of aging but gets his basic facts wrong. He’s talking about increases in life expectancy AT BIRTH, so you don’t get months back every year.
@ct_bergstrom Here he was a few years ago, just weeping at the prospect of machines replacing humans.