EDIT: This is Carlos bait, too:
The idea of an “intelligence explosion” in which smart machines would design even more intelligent machines was proposed by the mathematician I. J. Good in 1965. Later, in lectures and science fiction novels, the computer scientist Vernor Vinge popularized the notion of a moment when humans will create smarter-than-human machines, causing such rapid change that the “human era will be ended.” He called this shift the Singularity.
Bah. Fucking Singularity.
Must be a slow news day, because over in the Chronicle the front page headline was "Bay Area has had long love affair with the car". Has it now?
EDIT 2: And there you go.
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My favorite part of this is the picture with the caption that reads:
"This personal robot plugs itself in when it needs a charge. Servant now, master later?"
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