Professor Owen recommended a pretty good book I'm not reading: Engines of Creation by Eric K Drexler.
So much to say about it - hopefully you'll read the systems project and get the gist - but this is the most interesting part: marvin minsky's introduction.
The last few sentences contain a real gem, basically that AI is just the next step in the evolution of mind: awareness, conscious thought, writing, AI. As a tool for us, it will open up exponentially more new avenues than did writing (and writing gave birth to money, literature, and mathematics, before it even started creeping up on computers.)
That ties into a larger idea I've been stewing on how computers fit into the general scheme of human existence... hopefully I'll have the discipline by winter break to turn it into a book before it drives me mad.
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