Kurzweil, Ken Jennings, and Silicon Valley TRR#85

Aaron talks about the group project that is Singularity. Based in Silicon Valley, CA, this project requires front men and good PR. Recently Google has been in the news for buying up various Ai/machine learning development companies.
Topics include: news stories, limited thinking, speculation, connecting dots, belief in randomness, Ray Kurzweil, Google, Ai, AGI, Singularity, Silicon Valley, defense budget, tax money, DARPA, group projects, military contractors, subcontractors, democracy, front men, frustration, virtual reality, uploading consciousness, Boston Dynamics, contracts to help ensure ethical Ai, technicians, position of scientists, transhumanism, man and machine merger, Singularity University, NASA, ARC, SRI, Siri, Palo Alto, Apple, taxpayer funded research sold to private corporations, paying to be spied on, data mining, surveillance, machine learing language comprehension, Watson, IBM, Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings, grew up overseas, Oracle, rule changes, promoting Ai, Snowden
 
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