Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.