Argument against the singularity

After reading this article against the singularity, I realized the concerns I had about The age of spiritual machines were well founded. Basically they came from the fact that the definitions in the book were not objective enough (even more to include in his famous graph of increasing returns) and that you can’t use Moore’s law for other field’s (examples: lab on a chip, synthetic biology) and use it to explain our increase in understanding (true understanding like deriving maxwell’s equations). This blatantly obvious in artificial intelligence. Still for some reason the idea of a singularity keeps gaining popularity; the article in the first sentence of this post is from IEEE. So when you read about the singularity keep the above issues in mind.

Does the brain work like Google?

Here is an article about his on New Scientist:

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19626335.500

And here is Tom Griffith’s page, the guy that came up with this conclusion. His paper on it can be found below:

http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/retrieval.pdf

The paper also explains in detail how the PageRank algrithm is “supposed” to work (no one knows except Google).