![]() Stross doesn’t question these dubious premises, but runs with them in the best SF manner, pushing them to their most delirious consequences. Stross bases his novel on the “strong AI” hypothesis, and the arguments of such enthusiasts as Hans Moravec (who sees the human race as shortly to be surpassed and rendered defunct by artificial intelligences) and Ray Kurzweil (who similarly contends that “within 25 years, we’ll reverse-engineer the brain and go on to develop superintelligence”). ![]() ![]() Charles Stross‘ Accelerando (available for free download here) is a science fiction novel about the Singularity, the hypothesized point when radical increases in computing power - expressed both in neurological enhancements to our brains, and in the development of autonomous artificial intelligences - lead to an absolute discontinuity in history (the word was first used in this sense, as far as I know, by Vernor Vinge). ![]()
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