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Vernor Vinge

American Writer

Born: Feb 10, 1944

Even Intelligence Natural Science Singularity Will

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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. Vernor Vinge

Work Natural World Problems Animals Own Faster Case Inventions Selection Make Than Often Natural Selection Acts Adapt

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

World Will Approach How Spread Singularity Human Across View World View

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. Vernor Vinge

Progress Will Become Radical Faster Symptom Toward Ideas Most Another Spread Singularity Quickly Commonplace Themselves Should Even Ever

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. Vernor Vinge

Time Science Writing Took Months Easy Find Seemed Seems More Lead Like Ideas Science Fiction Cultural Began Very Decades Middle Eighteen Fiction Now Consciousness

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. Vernor Vinge

Possibility Physical Human Race Human Race Extinction

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. Vernor Vinge

Technology Natural Inevitable We Cannot Possibilities Above Prevent Argued Coming Singularity Cannot Inherent Humans Consequence Competitiveness

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. Vernor Vinge

Recognized Cases Something Developers Most Very Naturally Even

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

AI Research Proposing Am Note Ignored Less

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. Vernor Vinge

People Speak AI Project Intelligent Creating Beings Imagining

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

Intelligence Will Thirty Superhuman Within Years Create Means Technological

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