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Fantasists ponder a future of superlongevity, superintelligence, and superabundance—as if wishing will make it happen. Meanwhile, people are dying.

Click here for an interesting article by Mike Treder, Managing Director of The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), and former Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.

But here at Singularity University, things are a little different. This group project…

Click here for this article found on the CNET News site.

Click here for the overview article found on the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) website.

This documentation is one of the 10 Introductory Publications listed on the Singularity Summit website.

‘The Singularity’, as it is often called, refers to ‘The Technological Singularity,’ as put forward by scientists and futurists such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil.

Tom Abate puts it rather succinctly in an article he wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle:

Borrowing a term from physics, singularity suggests a horizon beyond which we can’t see. It describes the point at which some form of intelligence spawned by technology gains the ability to rapidly improve its own programming — becoming so powerful that we cannot predict what it might do. At that point, its capabilities could exceed even the power of our imaginations.

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