<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c52f59ce-2682-4a45-bd39-2f8971c2a679/881453A8-ED53-4CCC-8423-8FDCDD885B3F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=2104" href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=2104" style="font-size: 11px;">www.acceleratingfuture.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=2104"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.acceleratingfuture.com/img/5F1978FE-0029-41CD-A146-16378BD3DF14" alt="workshop_intro_banner.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=2104"><SPAN id="long-desc">In the introduction to the <A href="http://www.agi-08.org/workshop" linkindex="5" set="yes">AGI-08 post-conference workshop</A> on the futurological implications of artificial general intelligence, <A href="http://www.novamente.net/" linkindex="6">Novamente</A> Chief Science Officer <A href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people/Ben-Goertzel" linkindex="7" set="yes">Ben Goertzel</A> argued that it is worthwhile in planning for the future to put a certain amount of attention on the speculative aspects of present-day emerging technologies. The workshop’s introductory talk focuses on the significance of artificial general intelligence to the hypothesis of a technological singularity. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=2104"><A href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people/Vernor-Vinge/" linkindex="13" set="yes">Vernor Vinge</A> is a great science fiction writer and a brilliant thinker. He posed the notion of a Singularity and proposed that sometime–not in thousands of years or millions of years, but maybe tens of years–we could have AIs much smarter than humans with incredibly profound effects. This idea has been popularized most recently by <A href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people/Ray-Kurzweil/" linkindex="14" set="yes">Ray Kurzweil</A> in his book <EM>The Singularity Is Near</EM>. Ray, being a prognosticator rather than a science fiction writer, has put a date on it: 2045</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/881453A8-ED53-4CCC-8423-8FDCDD885B3F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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