Will There Ever Be a Machine as Smart as a Human?
Vernor Vinge says that's not the relevant question. The question is what happens next. Of course, we all knew that. But nobody can talk the Singularity quite like the guy who named it.
Excellent interview via the latest Glenn and Helen Show.
Lots of great stuff, but my favorite part would have to be Dr. Helen on the subject of virtual sex. Let's just say she's skeptical.
Check it out.
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Yet another author I admire greatly whose name I misprounounced in my head for years.
I was rhyming his first name with "Sir Bar" and his last name with "hinge." I would not have guessed "Verner Vingy."
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April 28, 2006 08:29 AM