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Author and professor of mathematics Vernor Vinge, best known for his "gripping hard science fiction" and introducing the concept of the technological singularity (AKA the Singularity)," died March 20 at age 79, Locus <https://locusmag.com/2024/03/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/> magazine reported. Vinges debut novel, Grimms World, was published in 1969. A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), the first book in the Zones of Thought series, won the Hugo Award, while the second title in the serie...

Sci-fi author and computer scientist who coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the rapid acceleration of AI

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Vernor Vinge’s writings heavily influenced futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in turn influenced those at companies like OpenAI.

Author Vernor Vinge has died at age 79.

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In 1993, during the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, science-fiction writer and mathematician

Futurist Ray Kurzweil wants to live long enough to witness the singularity. How? Popping 200 pills a day, for starters.

The Fear A. I. is off the leash. Accept this as a given. The A.I. that has an off-switch, is not cause for alarm. But there are forms of A.I. which cannot be turned off now. Humans have set it at liberty, to roam the cybersphere, the electronic oceans saturating our global civilization. The 1 and the O, the One and the Void, are a reality, digital, networked, and omnipresent.