Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

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

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

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.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.