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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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What we have is a data glut.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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