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   Why do we need a computer program that can understand a complex artificial   
   world? Wouldn't it be better to have a machine that understood the real   
   world? Creating an AI and a complex artificial world is just making the   
   problem even harder and the result would be useless.   
      
   I don't think a prize is necessarily a good thing, the smart people who have   
   a chance of creating AI will realize that it would be a gamble to spend   
   their lives trying to create AI in the hope of winning the prize at the end.   
   People have families to support and need a decent income. Money isn't a   
   really a good incentive anyway, the peope who create AI will create it   
   because they're genuinely fascinated by it. With the way things are going I   
   don't think AI is going to just pop up from out of a laboratory one day with   
   a fanfare blasting out, it's looking like its going to slowly evolve into   
   existence.   
      
   Person A creates a program with capability X, Person B creates a program   
   with capability Y, Person C copies person A's and person B's techniques and   
   creates a program with capabilities X and Y. Person D comes along etc...   
      
   Its going to be a long boring trip, just read your magazine and be patient.   
   Besides, you might not even like it when we get there.   
      
   I see mass unemployment and a huge class divide on the horizon.   
      
   The geek will inherit the earth.   
      
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