"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
― Vernor Vinge
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Intelligence
More From Vernor Vinge
- "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."
- "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."
- "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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