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Atricle Dump - The Singularity: On the Horizon
It's primary season! Yippie! And with primary season every numbskull is out vying for political office. And believe me, here in Pittsburgh we have our fair share of numbskulls!I was listening Thursday afternoon to the local "progressive" radio station here in town as I often do to see what the "progressives" are feeling. The regular host was on vacation but her stand in was having interviews with some locals vying for the nomination to run against Republican Melissa Hart for her seat in the United States House of Representatives. Needless to say they were
Even Vernor Vinge, the professor and author who coined the phrase the Singularity, does not know what will happen when we reach it. But he has written several detailed novels and scientific papers about the event and various pathways through it.
From the interview abstra
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With each advance, the knowledge curve turns up. Sometimes it plateaus for a while, but it never turns down. With the computer age, this curve has reached a rate of rise that exceeds anything in the past. That's where we are right now.
What happens when, say, 30 to 50 years from now, that curve reaches a rate of rise that is indistinguishable from straight up? The answer is: no one knows.
And that's the Singularity.
Many predict the coming of the Singularity, but no one can predict specifics. What does the Singularity mean to the human race? Will we be made up of computer parts, like the Bionic Man? Will artificial intelligence be sentient, like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica? Will clones be running around, applying for drivers' licenses? Will we even recognize ourselves?
Even Vernor Vinge, the professor and author who coined the phrase the Singularity, does not know what will happen when we reach it. But he has written several detailed novels and scientific papers about the event and various pathways through it.
From the interview abstrac
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With each advance, the knowledge curve turns up. Sometimes it plateaus for a while, but it never turns down. With the computer age, this curve has reached a rate of rise that exceeds anything in the past. That's where we are right now.
What happens when, say, 30 to 50 years from now, that curve reaches a rate of rise that is indistinguishable from straight up? The answer is: no one knows.
And that's the Singularity.
Many predict the coming of the Singularity, but no one can predict specifics. What does the Singularity mean to the human race? Will we be made up of computer parts, like the Bionic Man? Will artificial intelligence be sentient, like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica? Will clones be running around, applying for drivers' licenses? Will we even recognize ourselves?
Even Vernor Vinge, the professor and author who coined the phrase the Singularity, does not know what will happen when we reach it. But he has written several detailed novels and scientific papers about the event and various pathways through it.
From the interview abstra
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What happens when, say, 30 to 50 years from now, that curve reaches a rate of rise that is indistinguishable from straight up? The answer is: no one knows.
And that's the Singularity.
Many predict the coming of the Singularity, but no one can predict specifics. What does the Singularity mean to the human race? Will we be made up of computer parts, like the Bionic Man? Will artificial intelligence be sentient, like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica? Will clones be running around, applying for drivers' licenses? Will we even recognize ourselves?
Even Vernor Vinge, the professor and author who coined the phrase the Singularity, does not know what will happen when we reach it. But he has written several detailed novels and scientific papers about the event and various pathways through it.
From the interview abstra
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Even Vernor Vinge, the professor and author who coined the phrase the Singularity, does not know what will happen when we reach it. But he has written several detailed novels and scientific papers about the event and various pathways through it.
From the interview abstra
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Even Vernor Vinge, the professor and author who coined the phrase the Singularity, does not know what will happen when we reach it. But he has written several detailed novels and scientific papers about the event and various pathways through it.
From the interview abstract with Vinge at IT Conversations, Vinge says: Based on raw hardware trends, it's plausible that within thirty years we will create superhuman intelligence -- and so pass through a technological singularity. This is a different form of change than imagined by futurisms past. In fact, to think that we can predict beyond this singularity is a bit like expecting a goldfish to understand AC2005.
Vinge says there are two ways the Singularity could happen: the good way or the bad way. The good way is what he calls a soft takeoff, with the transition (the curve of the time-line) happening over many years. This would give humans a period of adjustment, a time to ponder ethical ramifications, and the ability to take preventative action against any misuse of advanced technology.
But the transition could take less than 100 hours, Vinge continues. Such a hard takeoff is almost certainly a Very Bad Thing.
In his book THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR: When Humans Transcend Biology, scientist Ray Kurzweil takes an optimistic stance. Some of the things we might see in the Singularity: death becomes curable; hunge
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