Vernor Vinge Quotes
"It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Old, Reality, Rules)
"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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(Related: Research)
"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Science, Fiction, Will, Writers)
"The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility."
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(Related: Possibility, Race)
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
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(Related: Intelligence, Will, Years)
"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Work, Humanity)
"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."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Agreement, Existence, Fact, Importance)
"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."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Science, Time, Ideas, Consciousness, Fiction, Months, Now, Writing)
"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."
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(Related: Being)
"IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is."
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"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
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(Related: Technology, Possibilities)
"I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Change, Life, Earth)
"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Intelligence, Network, Potential, Research)
"How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?"
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(Related: Will, World)
"Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things."
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"But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Will)
"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Intelligence, Time, Ability, Information, Sense)
"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Progress, Ideas, Radical, Will)
"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Work, Animals, Inventions, Problems, World)
"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."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Optimism, Events, Years)
"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Competition, Light, Years)