The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View – Boing Boing

The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View
Boing Boing
But while I see an exponential trajectory in the amount of neurobiological data collected to date, the ploddingly linear increase in our understanding of neural function means that an idea like mind-uploading to machines being usefully deployed by the ...

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