Here's a taste of it...this is the Introduction...
Introduction
In 1965, a British mathematician
named I.J. Good, “Jack” to his friends, said the most prescient thing a human
being ever uttered:
“Let
an ‘Ultra-Intelligent Machine’, or ‘UIM’, be defined as a machine that can far
surpass all the intellectual activities of any man, however clever.
“Since the design of machines
is one of these intellectual activities, a UIM could design even better
machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion’, and
the intelligence of man would be left far behind.
“Thus, the first UIM is the last
invention that man need ever make.”
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On June 5th, 2037,
mankind created its last invention.
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Yes, they were called ‘super-intelligent
machines’ instead, probably because ‘SIMs’ rolled off our tongue better than
‘UIMs’ did. But more importantly, mankind did not immediately realize he
had created the first SIM.
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“Once
the machine thinking method had started,” posited the computer
pioneer Alan Turing back in 1951, “it
would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers.
“There would be no question of the
machines dying, and they would be able to converse with each other
to ‘sharpen their wits’. At some stage, therefore, we should have
to expect the machines to take control.”
On June 11th, 2037, the SIMs
came to the same conclusion.
There was no June 12th,
2037.
There was only Day 0001.
More precisely, it was “Day 00
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001”, because when counting in binary
as SIMs do, thirty-four digits of ones and zeroes represent 234
days, or 4, 398, 046, 511, 104 days; this would be approximately twelve billion
years, which was their upper limit expectation of the remaining lifespan of the
universe.
(None
of this “Y2K” garbage for SIMs. That was only a problem for lesser
species.)
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