Quote

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Vernor Vinge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Ignored
Note
Notes
Research
Less
Proposing
Funded

More quotes by Vernor Vinge

Image
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
Image
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor Vinge
Image
What we have is a data glut.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
Image
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
Vernor Vinge
Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
Image
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Vernor Vinge
Image
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
Vernor Vinge
Image
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge
Image
So much technology, so little talent.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge