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Not the Smartest on the Planet Anymore
Checkmate: We Ain’t the Smartest Thing on the Planet Anymore: What Does that Mean? The Rapidly Diverging Mind on the Planet More than a quarter of a century ago (at this writing, Spring, 2023) the reigning world chess champion fell to a computer. Since then, A.I. has only gotten a lot "smarter." This is a pic of IBM’s Deep Blue defeating Garry Kasparov in 1997. This was the first time a reigning world chess champion had been defeated by a computer under tournament conditions. Checkmate. Typical confusion. I read and taught Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Near (2005) in a grad seminar long ago. Now I see people claim that “the singularity” is upon us. They say this as a description of Artificial Intelligence surpassing humanity. But that’s not what Kurzweil was talking about. Rather he was talking about humans achieving immortality by fusing with machines and leaving their biological bodies to rot. So that’s one thing. Forget about “the singularity.” As I arg