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I'd be happy if my phone's autocorrect feature would actually produce sentences with proper spelling and reasonable grammar. Apparently that's still too hard for our mighty machine learning systems. I'm not going to merge with any technology that is worse than my stupid mush brain.

[edit - why am I still editing the spelling and grammar on this post?]

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Just because that good autocorrect AI or AGI isn't available today doesn't mean that we should dismiss it as something that we don't need to worry about. Because the change to our way of living is so great, we should start making plans, even if it is 10 or 30 years out.

Personally I believe we will see really interesting animal-like AGI demos in 2018 and 2019.

It's just dumb that people can't take this stuff seriously until all of the engineering and research is 100% done.

I'm not dismissing it. On the contrary, I can't wait for brain-machine interfaces. I can't wait for really good self-driving cars. I'm just not as optimistic as many of my colleagues.

I'm waiting for self driving lawyers. And lawn mowers.

My lawyer can drive himself, but it only works with BMWs.

It's just a matter of doing things in a proper order. World conquering super intelligent AI first, then really high quality auto-correct. It's actually what our AI God will spend all of its time on, correcting spelling & grammar for 13 billion people sending trillions of increasingly poorly formed messages.

See the book Avagado Corp.

Can we aim lower? I'd settle for one that auto corrected "the" and "they" whenever I (frequently) get it wrong. After that I'd like one that could sort out the "there", "their" and "they're" thing for me.

I'd settle for not remembering a word I type incorrectly on a tiny screen all the time (without a prompt). No "yiu" isn't a word, stop suggesting it.

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