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

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

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

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.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.