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rsl7 on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kurzweil's rebuttal to Paul Allen

Worse, there are about to be seven billion brains on the planet. Not merely one.. and human brains aren't so great in isolation.

wanorris on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

Why would it need to be in isolation? Machine vision, voice recognition, speech synthesis, robotics -- there's no obvious reason why if we could build such a brain we couldn't find a way for it to interact with people.

rsl7 on Oct 20, 2011 | [–]

I agree, but the devil is in those details. Look at the variations among actual humans.

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