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Mar 26, 2024

Accelerando: Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories written by British author Charles Stross

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As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was released as a free e-book under the CC BY-NC-ND license. Accelerando won the Locus Award in 2006, and was nominated for several other awards in 2005 and 2006, including the Hugo, Campbell, Clarke, and British Science Fiction Association Awards.

The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s.

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Mar 25, 2024

Vinge—Technological-Singularity-Tx5uZ.pdf

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Vernor Vinge the coming technological singularity 1993.


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Mar 25, 2024

Metal (Remix)

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In honor of Vernor Vinge father of the technological singularity hypothesis.

Mar 24, 2024

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

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Vinge won multiple Hugo awards and created a sci-fi concept that drives AI researchers.

Mar 22, 2024

Is Singularity here?

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One of the most influential figures in the field of AI, Ray Kurzweil, has famously predicted that the singularity will happen by 2045. Kurzweil’s prediction is based on his observation of exponential growth in technological advancements and the concept of “technological singularity” proposed by mathematician Vernor Vinge.

Mar 22, 2024

Technological singularity

Posted by in categories: cosmology, Ray Kurzweil, singularity

It is with sadness — and deep appreciation of my friend and colleague — that I must report the passing of Vernor Vinge.


The technological singularity —or simply the singularity[1] —is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.[2][3] According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good’s intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a “runaway reaction” of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an “explosion” in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence.[4]

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Mar 15, 2024

The Political Singularity and a Worthy Successor, with Daniel Faggella

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Calum and David recently attended the BGI24 event in Panama City, that is, the Beneficial General Intelligence summit and unconference. One of the speakers we particularly enjoyed listening to was Daniel Faggella, the Founder and Head of Research of Emerj.

Something that featured in his talk was a 3 by 3 matrix, which he calls the Intelligence Trajectory Political Matrix, or ITPM for short. As we’ll be discussing in this episode, one of the dimensions of this matrix is the kind of end goal future that people desire, as intelligent systems become ever more powerful. And the other dimension is the kind of methods people want to use to bring about that desired future.

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Mar 14, 2024

Google’s AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction

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Other prominent technologists have praised Dr Kurzweil for the accuracy of his predictions, with Google founder Larry Page personally hiring him to the company in 2012, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates describing him as “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence”

The 76-year-old computer scientist, who has been working on artificial intelligence for more than six decades, cited the exponential progress of computing power in recent decades in order to reinforce his predictions, compiling dozens of charts for his new book.

When asked on the Joe Rogan Experience about what kind of revolutionary changes that AI could bring to society within the next few years, Dr Kurzweil said he believed it would soon be able to reverse human ageing.

Mar 9, 2024

10 Ways Science Fiction Got High Tech Wrong

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Or did it? From flying cars to the Singularity, here’s how some of the most popular visions of the high-tech future are panning out today.

Mar 6, 2024

AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial ‘super intelligence’ sooner than we think, says top scientist

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We could build an AI that demonstrates generalized, human-level intelligence within three to eight years — which may open the door to a “super intelligence” in a very short space of time.

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