Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
– Vernor Vinge
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.
– Vernor Vinge
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
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.