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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

Vernor Vinge

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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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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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What we have is a data glut.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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