Archive for February 18th, 2007
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
The Singularity by Vernor Vinge
In 1993, Vernor Vinge published a controversial paper that heralded a new and radical theory - ‘The Singularity’. The premise is that technological progress is accelerating so fast that eventually, this progress will result in machines with intelligence equal to humans. When these machines then create intelligence beyond their own, the human […]