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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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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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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

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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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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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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 work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 10th, 1944

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