The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order.

When the first transhuman intelligence is created and launches itself into recursive self-improvement, a fundamental discontinuity is likely to occur, the likes of which I can’t even begin to predict.

PBS selected him as one of “sixteen revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment

The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.
—W
INSTON
C
HURCHILL

human intelligence does have a certain amount of plasticity (ability to change its structure),

iology has inherent limitations.

The traditional strengths of machine intelligence include the ability to remember billions of facts precisely and recall them instantly.
Another advantage of nonbiological intelligence is that once a skill is mastered by a machine, it can be performed repeatedly at high speed, at optimal accuracy, and without tiring.

From my perspective, the Singularity has many face

The list of ways computers can now exceed human capabilities is rapidly growing.