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Justin Rattner on the Singularity

by Socrates
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I have sometimes been confronted by the position that the technological singularity is a crazy sci fi idea that is completely divorced from reality and is created and popularized by science fiction authors such as Vernor Vinge and futurists such as Ray Kurzweil. Well, Justin Rattner is neither a philosopher nor a futurist. He is, [...]

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Best of Singularity Blog

by Socrates

Even though it has been only a bit more than a month since the beginning of this blog I am happy to note that there is already a tight group of people who have subscribed to my feed and continue to come back and read my posts on a regular basis. I want to take [...]

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Dawn of the Kill-Bots: the Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arming of AI (part 5)

by Socrates

Part 5: The Future of (Military) AI — Singularity While being certainly dangerous for humans, especially the ones that are specifically targeted by the kill-bots, arming machines is not on its own a process that can threaten the reign of homo sapiens in general. What can though is the fact that it is occurring within [...]

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