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What we have is a data glut.
Vernor Vinge
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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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