Edward Frenkel vs Ray Kurzweil and Jeff Hawkins on AI

Edward Frenkel slams strong AI, evildoer Ray Kurzweil, and brain uploads in his YouTube “Outline on I am or AI am?” Putting aside speculative notions of holography and the digital universe until experiment says otherwise on its nearest undiscovered lynchpin: supersymmetry, I’ll go over Frenkel’s incomplete arguments, fill in potential gaps, and point the reader to work by