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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.

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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
Humans
Dies
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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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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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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What we have is a data glut.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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.
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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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