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Enjoy exclusive offers Retired mathematics professor Vernor
Vinge describes one pathway toward the technological
singularity: by using computers as external brain supplements
that allow humans to approach superhuman intelligence. Luke
Muehlhauser, Executive Director of the Singularity Institute,
takes on skeptics who argue that superhuman artificial
intelligence will forever remain beyond the capabilities of
technology. "If you make these kinds of predictions about what
machines can't do, you're going to end up on the wrong side of
history," he says. Popular science writer Carl Zimmer confirms
that viruses will always surprise us, for better or worse: the
key is to find innovative uses in science and medicine for
viruses instead of trying to eradicate them. Peter Norvig,
Director of Research at Google, demonstrates a computer system
that has been programmed to organize collections of im