Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? (2000)

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"Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?"
A symposium held at Stanford University on April 2000, hosted by Douglas Hofstdter (Gödel, Escher, Bach) featuring panelists:
Ray Kurzweil (author of The Age of Spiritual Machines)
Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems)
Hans Moravec (author of Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind)
John Holland (pioneer in genetic algorithms)
Kevin Kelly (exec. editor for Wired magazine)
Frank Drake (founder of SETI)
Ralph Merkle (inventor of public key cryptography, crypto hashing)

John Koza (pioneer genetic programming)

I attended this and was going to post something about it last year for the 25th anniversary. Better late than never..

(I met a lot of heroes that day..)

Was anybody else on HN there? Capacity in the auditorium was probably less than 300, but many were standing in the aisles.

So as not to date myself too much, I wasn't old enough to drink, but somehow got myself here by train (with the help of a Bay Area friend: Hey Tom!).

Robots uttering mumbo-jumbo and having followers will be a site to see. I will be not that hard to make a see robot levitating off the ground and saying mmmm. Ai wont even leave spirituality that humans invented to process their trauma with gobbledygook alone.

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