Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Its agents -- not even human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's automation” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“But in a year we’ll have ten or twenty of our own processors. By then we’ll be making vision chips. There will… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge…And now revenge was all that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
