Is here. An excerpt:
Back at the turn of the millennium, these applications seemed to Kurzweil to be on the near-term horizon. These strike me as the same applications that Brynjolfsson and McAfee suggest are on the near-term horizon today. While a few of Kurzweil’s other predictions did materialize, and while some of these applications are certainly closer to reality today than they were in 1999 or 2009, we should be wary that some of what The Second Machine Age tells us to expect may not in fact appear for several decades, if ever.
I’m not impressed and certainly not surprised by Watson. I know on one level I should be. But it is the same way I should be surprised and impressed by the unknown work that goes into wastewater treatment.
I knew computers could download encyclopedias. The most impressive part is understanding the jeopardy answers and finding the right question, I assume by statistics. But I expect this from computers.
When some creates the flying car I’ll be impressed. If a robot does it I’ll be surprised.
Dude, what I do is way harder than waste treatment.
Okay. Now I’m impressed. I thought only humans could crap on a point.