We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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

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

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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