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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Could AI be destructive
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:32:29 GMT
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   Vernor Vinge in the Winter 1993 Whole Earth Review writes of a
"Technological  Singularity"  rather than of an exponential curve
because the emergence of the first ultraintelligent machine  will
cast "an opaque wall across the future."   Vinge writes that "The
precipitating event will likely be unexpected...."  It may be you.

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 /visual memory\ brain-mind________  abstract   | auditory      |
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory     | memory        |
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
|   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    ______  |  |
|  /image  \    |    ___V____V__  word-fetch    |   /      \ |  |
| / percept \<--|-->/ array of  \---------------|->/ stored \|  |
| \ engrams /   |   \ concepts  / for thinking  |  \ words  /   |
|  \_______/    |    \_________/  in language   |   \______/    |
