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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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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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What we have is a data glut.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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 will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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're endangered by our own success.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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