What Is Super About Super Intelligence?
In 1993, Vernor Vinge, a former computer scientist, professor at San Diego State University, and science fiction author wrote on the coming technological singularity, which he defined as, “the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.” The dramatic changes that would follow the Singularity could come quickly, perhaps within hours, as machines rapidly improve their own algorithms at billions of times the speed of human thought or action. The consequences of the Singularity are unknowable.
