Quotes About Vernor

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

Five seconds, ten seconds, more change than ten thousand years of a human civilization. A billion trillion constructions, mold curling out from every wall, rebuilding what had been merely superhuman.

They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had happened, nor the result of the strivings. "A Fire Upon the Deep

Nau had been very careful that enough nukes remained. If necessary, he could play the old, old game of total disaster management. So what can be salvaged? He

Now on Tines World, the Zone physics was still improving. What was it like thirty lightyears higher? Bili

languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.' 'Yes, and that's

Its agents -- not even human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's automation

Fong's obscenity-spattered fit about keyboards. So what to look

you've worked out the numbers. To do that we'd essentially have to re-create the sun. Do you have any idea of the energy involved? I remember what it took to support our diggers after Dark during the War. We used more fuel in

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.