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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Vernor Vinge
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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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