Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

What we have is a data glut.