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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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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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Fiction
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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What we have is a data glut.
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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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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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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.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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