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.
From Vernor Vinge
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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.
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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