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Singularity
Books about the theorized technological singularity.
Note: There is also a Goodreads group by the same title. The bookshelf in that group is not the same as this list, although the two should be largely congruent.
(See wikipedia for more information on the topic and many other links.) ...more
The technological singularity is a theoretical future point that takes place during a period of unprecedented technological progress sometime after the creation of a Superintelligence.This bookshelf contains both fiction and non-fiction, some dealing directly with the topic, some indirectly.
Note: There is also a Goodreads group by the same title. The bookshelf in that group is not the same as this list, although the two should be largely congruent.
(See wikipedia for more information on the topic and many other links.) ...more
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Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.
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― Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ
― Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ
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I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably irrelevant. But the elements of this phenomenon are now quickly dissolving from memory and being replaced by reverse-engineered Random Access actualizations of junk code/DNA consciousness, the retro-coded catalysts of rogue cellular activity. The steel meshing titters musically and in
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― Sinew of the Social Species
― Sinew of the Social Species
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