The Singularity

[TheBigYinJames]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

is the Singularity I tried to refer to.

Vernor Vinge, the man who came up with the name, has a fantastic name to use in dirty limericks.

[BrilloPad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

is the Singularity I tried to refer to.

"if machines could even slightly surpass human intellect" - depends which humans. If measured relative to intellect of posts in general I reckon machines have already outpassed.

[DimPrawn]

Others, most prominently Ray Kurzweil, define the Singularity as a period of extremely rapid technological progress.

You must be talking about Vista, no?

[NotAllThere]

There can be only one.

[TheBigYinJames]

"if machines could even slightly surpass human intellect" - depends which humans. If measured relative to intellect of posts in general I reckon machines have already outpassed.

In fact I;m sure some of the posts are already machine generated. Malvolio is one superb AI program.

[NotAllThere]

Vernor Vinge, the man who came up with the name, has a fantastic name to use in dirty limericks.

Cringe, minge, hinge, binge, fringe, ginge, singe, tinge, winge

lots of potential there.

[Diver]

"if machines could even slightly surpass human intellect" - depends which humans. If measured relative to intellect of posts in general I reckon machines have already outpassed.

My battery operated coffee whisk has

[ThomasSoerensen]

So I can conclude that this is a new and non-controversial topic to the CUK users.

No problem.

See you on the other side - if you will be there :-)

[TheBigYinJames]

So I can conclude that this is a new and non-controversial topic to the CUK users.
No problem.
See you on the other side - if you will be there :-)

We work in IT, we know how crappy the hardware and software is. Incompetency, vapourware and hype rule. None of us are heading for the hills just yet.

[Diver]

We work in IT, we know how crappy the hardware and software is. Incompetency, vapourware and hype rule. None of us are heading for the hills just yet.

I reckon it will happen in 2010

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