He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

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.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

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.

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

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.