Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: October 2, 1944
We're endangered by our own success..
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended..
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn..
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villain….
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth..
I say, let's learn more and then speculate..
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?.
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program..
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change..
Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbere….
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things..
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart..
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held no….
He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe..
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..
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence ….
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility..
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and th….
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will..
What we have is a data glut..