George Dyson on Why Your Work Matters: Darwin, Machines, & The Future We're Building

That paper of Turing's is famous for what we call the Turing test, which is this idea that you can determine whether a machine is intelligent by having a conversation with it. And I believe exactly the opposite... A real true AI would be intelligent enough not to reveal its intelligence to us.

The current pandemic crisis... it's going to push biotechnology the same way World War II pushed physics. Everybody's working on this biological problem, and that, in the end, will have all sorts of secondary effects.

We tend to assume that the other intelligence is going to be like us ... I think that's a dead end. Other kinds of intelligence are going to be other kinds of intelligence.

I strongly disagree with Ray Kurzweil. The things he is hoping for terrify me, and the things he's afraid of don't scare me at all.