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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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Endeavors
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Writers
Fiction
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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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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.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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What we have is a data glut.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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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 have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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