Jazz+ Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Ray-Kurzweil-Google-meld-minds-4147721.php Find 660 of my jazz piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmp Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 There goes the neighborhood. Bring on the extra creepy. --wmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triple8 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Eric Schmidt of Google: "Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it." I disagree with that statement. Google is synonymous with creepy, and have long ago crossed the line. Kurzweil will fit in fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmp Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Very clever how he neglects to mention which side of the creepy line he's talking about. That's some very polished slinging. I'll bet he has expensive shoes. --wmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humannoyed Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Ray-Kurzweil-Google-meld-minds-4147721.php Thanks for posted that, suddenly I feel...very very normal... in fact boringly so. Personally I give a lot of leeway to the original creative mind. If out of thousands of ideas came one quality-of-life-changing one, then were not all of their misses worth it? The winning idea might even be an unintended one of the original goal of the research, in fact often is. "It is a danger to create something and risk rejection. It is a greater danger to create nothing and allow mediocrity to rule." "You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at." W.H. Auden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmp Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Thanks for posting that. I suddenly feel very very abnormal. Even more so than usual. So much so that I've folded myself up a new tin foil hat and twisted up something to calm my shakes. I suppose a winning idea depends on your definition of winning. No doubt, a Google Kurzweil mind meld will produce some quality-of-life-changing results. I'm grateful that I won't live long enough to fully appreciate all of that. When I think of Ray I think of Monsanto Frankenfood, Ted Williams in a jar, Madame Curie dying of radiation poisoning, and Frankenstein himself. I fear for the future of humanity. I also have some unpopular opinions about Big Brother, computers, and the internet. It's funny that one of my computer science heros doesn't think a whole lot of Ray either. Bill Joy articulates much better than I ever could why Ray disturbs me so much. The idea of Ray and Google teaming up takes my rosy outlook on the future to a whole new place. That's two kinds of creepy in one that I'd never even considered. Good luck, kids. --wmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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