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[IEET - Ethical Technology Blog] "Advanced Human Intelligence" by Mike Treder, Responsible Nano 8/10/2005: Artificial intelligence permeates our economy. It's what I define as "narrow" AI: machine intelligence that equals or exceeds human intelligence for specific tasks.

 [Spiritandsky.com] future: transhumanism: singularity Spirit And Sky: "A 'Singularity Watcher' is neither absolutely convinced -- nor uncritically happy -- that the Singularity is going to happen, but they do believe this issue deserves serious scientific investigation." Runs mailing lists, an L.A.-based reading group, and attempting to organize a conference on accelerating change.

 [Singinst.org] News of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, medical simulation, and cybernetic art.

 [Jefallbright.net] Ray Kurzweil | Jef's web files: RAY KURZWEIL: The universe has been set up in an exquisitely specific way so that evolution could produce the people that are sitting here today and we could use our intelligence to talk about the universe. We see a formidable power in the ability to use our minds and the tools we've created to gather evidence, to use our inferential abilities to develop theories, to test the theories, and to understand the universe at increasingly precise levels.

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