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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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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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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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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.

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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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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 10th, 1944

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