Hans Moravec – Quote Investigator®

Quote Origin: Falling Into the Singularity is Admittedly a Frightening Thing, But Now We Might Regard Ourselves as Caterpillars Who Will Soon Be Butterflies

Vernor Vinge? Hans Moravec? Irving John Good? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The creation of entities with superhuman intelligence would mark a new epoch in human history. Systems which outperform humans in tasks such determining 3D protein structures or playing the boardgame Go already exist. But these AI systems display narrow expertise. The advent of …

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Quote Origin: We Are on the Threshold of a Change in the Universe Comparable to the Transition from Non-Life to Life

Hans Moravec? Timothy Leary? Vince Rause? Grant Fjermedal? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The creation of the first living beings on planet Earth was an epochal change. The prominent roboticist Hans Moravec has stated that the advent of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) will be a change comparable to the transition from non-life to life. Would …

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