What Is The Singularity? | Earth Lab

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What is the singularity? Will the computers rise up, should we be afraid? Greg Foot explains.

Footnote 1 - https://archive.org/stream/bulletinof64pt3.2oxtomiss/bulletinof64pt3.2oxtomiss_djvu.txt
Footnote 2 - http://www.techinsider.io/ray-kurzweil-law-of-accelerating-returns-2015-5
Footnote 3 - https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/08/is-the-singularity-near-or-has-its-time-already-passed.html and http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/waiting-for-the-rapture
Footnote 4 - “The Rapture of The Geeks” by Richard Dooling - Chapter six
Footnote 5 - http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html
Footnote 6 - http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150724-the-problem-with-the-turing-test
Footnote 7 - http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR583836.aspx
Footnote 8 - http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/297-artificial-intelligence.html
Footnote 9 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32334573
Footnote 10 - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/ibms-watson-memorized-the-entire-urban-dictionary-then-his-overlords-had-to-delete-it/267047/
Footnote 11 - http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/the-consciousness-conundrum
Footnote 12 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32334573
Footnote 13 - https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730380-400-can-software-suffer-death-and-pain-in-digital-brains/
Footnote 14 - http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-second-of-human-brain-activity-takes-82944-processors and http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/feb/28/how-many-neurons-human-brain
Footnote 15 - http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/the-consciousness-conundrum and http://www.nature.com/news/neuroscience-where-is-the-brain-in-the-human-brain-project-1.15803
Footnote 16 - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/18/first-almost-fully-formed-human-brain-grown-in-lab-researchers-claim
Footnote 17 - http://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/
Footnote 18 - http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527336/do-we-need-asimovs-laws/
Footnote 19 - http://io9.com/why-asimovs-three-laws-of-robotics-cant-protect-us-1553665410

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