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“Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Language #Natural #Program
“Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Butterfly #Said #Wells
“It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Lying
“Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Keys #Video #Legs
“The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Race #Extinction #Possibility
“IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Cases
“We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Years #Light #Competition
“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

#Agreement #Mind #Algorithms
“Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Technology #Understanding #World
“Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Research #Ignored #Notes
“What we have is a data glut.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Data
“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no ***** can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Perfection #Empathy #Talent
“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Hurt #Faces #Cry
“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Gun #Mind #Thunder
“Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Ideas #Progress #Corny
“I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Change #Earth #Paper
“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

#Writing #Science #Ideas
“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

#Profound #Research #Artificial Intelligence
“How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Views #World #Approach
“But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Singularity #Technological
“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

#Information #Natural #Increase
“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

#Animal #World #Problem
“Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Stretching
“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

#Technology #Natural #Possibility
“The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Science #Creative #Fiction
“So much technology, so little talent.”
-- Vernor Vinge

#Technology #Littles #Talent

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