The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
By Raymond C. Kurzweil. 2006
965 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Reproductive Medicine
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8ecc165747818821f31f75cde42c75be51122a70
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In Reproductive Medicine
- Brian Magerko
- R. Arkin
- S. Omohundro
- Patrick Ulam
- Bill Hibbard
- Michael A. Peters
- Alan R. Wagner
- Duri Long
Citations in the corpus
- The Basic AI Drives (2008, background): “The rapid pace of technological progress suggests that these issues may become of critical importance soon [14].”
- Moral Decision Making in Autonomous Systems: Enforcement, Moral Emotions, Dignity, Trust, and Deception (2012, methodology): “In so doing, we can likely avoid the neo-luddite dystopia espoused by [Joy 00] among others, while not blindly accepting the utopian perspectives representative of [Moravec 90] and [Kurzweil 06].”
- Technological unemployment: Educating for the fourth industrial revolution (2017, background): “Ray Kurzweil (2006) argues that accelerating technology makes this unfolding era truly different especially with the facility of recursive self-improvement and the cumulative growth of AI.7 This is the age of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics that ushers in the age of singularity, enabling the…”
- Avoiding Unintended AI Behaviors (2012, background): “Some scientists expect artificial intelligence (AI) to greatly exceed human intelligence during the twenty-first century (Kurzweil 2005).”
- On Defining Artificial Intelligence (2019, background): “Besides the attempts to restore the original aim of AI (though under new names), there are also speculations like “singularity” (Kurzweil, 2006) or “superintelligence” (Bostrom, 2014) that set the aims even higher.”
- What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations (2020, background): “Singularity/concern about harm to people: The idea of “the singularity”—or the time when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence [85]—has been popularized in science fiction, and many have concerns about AI intentionally causing harm to people [13,144].”