“Within thirty years,” wrote computer scientist, mathematics professor, and science fiction author Vernor Vinge, “we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” Vinge wrote those words in 1993, and while the human era isn’t over quite yet, the idea of the singularity—the point when artificial […]
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The Singularity Is Near
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