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by YeGoblynQueenne 426 days ago
Which of those things claimed it would be "like the renaissance" or that we'd cure all diseases?

In the clip I link above Hassabis says he hopes that in 10-15 years' time we'll be looking back on the way we do medicine today like the way they did it in the middle ages. In 10-15 years time. Modern medicine - you know, antibiotics, vaccines, transplants, radiotherapy, anti-retrovirals, the whole shebang, like medieval times.

Are you saying - what are you saying? Who has said things like that ever before in the tech industry? Azure? Facebook? Ethereum? Who?

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A quick search:

"Blockchain will cure cancer": https://archive.trufflesuite.com/blog/blockchain-will-cure-c...

"The Cloud will cure cancer": https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/cloud-will-cure-cancer/?gu...

"Why The Cloud could hold the cure to all diseases" https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/why-cloud-could-hol...

"Bitcoin is bigger than the renaissance": https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-bigger-than-the-renaissanc...

I could go on, but you get the idea.

Ray Kurzweil?