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What we have is a data glut.
We're endangered by our own success.
So much technology, so little talent.
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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.
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.
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.