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Remarkable intelligence , intelligence at or above and beyond the level of agenius .
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Given these considerations, it is possible that one day we may be able to create "superintelligence": a general intelligence that vastly outperforms the best human brains in every significant cognitive domain.
Ethical Technology 2009
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A continued cycle of improvement will lead to an intelligence explosion, and the creation of superintelligence, beyond which accurate predictions of what will happen next begin to break down.
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The technological singularity is the theoretical future point which takes place during a period of accelerating change sometime after the creation of a superintelligence.
Why "The Singularity" Scares the Bejesus Out of Me William Harryman 2009
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A few years later he meets a superintelligence called ES and becomes relatively immortal (as in can be killed by weapons and certain illnesses but does not age).
5 Greatest Space Operas (And No, Foundation Isn’t One Of Them) 2008
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Because coming up with problems is a function of intelligence, not wisdom, and he doesn't have superintelligence.
Snark Free Corner for 2/25 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The ongoing expansion of our future superintelligence will then require moving out into the rest of the universe, where we may engineer new universes.
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Given the radical potential for postbiological superintelligence, a number of thinkers have suggested that universe engineering is a likely activity for advanced civilizations.
What You Need to Know to Be a 21st Century Intellectual William Harryman 2007
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For one thing, I can't imagine anything more dull for a superintelligence than micromanaging the lives of billions jumped-up of monkeys.
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The point is, even if we are flatworms by comparison to a potential superintelligence, we are still human beings.
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For another, my bet is that superintelligence is likely to result from a synergy between IA and uploading, not just the explosion of classical AI: ie, those superintelligences will be direct memetic descendants of us, and their morality can be expected to be an evolved version of our own.
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