The Singularity Is Near
When Humans Transcend Biology
The prediction that machine intelligence will overtake ours, dated and argued rather than merely asserted.
Ray Kurzweil argues that technological progress is exponential rather than linear, and that the curves for computing, genetics and nanotechnology converge on a point where machine intelligence exceeds our own and human beings merge with it. He dates that point and defends the dating at length. The book has been argued with continuously since 2005, which is a reasonable measure of how seriously it was taken.
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Elliot Ackerman
In the future, when technology allows our intelligence and even our personalities to upload into supercomputers, what will it mean to be human?
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