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The address of this document is http://sysopmind.com/singularity.html. If you found it elsewhere, please visit the foregoing link for the most recent version. Created: 11/18/1996 BORDER=0 height=31 width=88 SRC="http://c1.thecounter.com/id=280955&size=1536&colors=24&referer=&java=false"> Updated: 05/27/2001 Computing speed doubles every two years. Computing speed doubles every two years of work. Computing speed doubles every two subjective years of work. Two years after Artificial Intelligences reach human equivalence, their speed doubles. One year later, their speed doubles again. Six months - three months - 1.5 months ... Singularity. Plug in the numbers for current computing speeds, the current doubling time, and an estimate for the raw processing power of the human brain, and the numbers match in: 2021. But personally, I'd like to do it sooner. It began three and a half billion years ago in a pool of muck, when a molecule made a copy of itself and so became the ultimate ance

Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5 216 captures 13 Jun 2007 - 17 Jul 2026 May JUN Jul 13 2006 2007 2008 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine . Collection: Around The World Crawl Data crawled by Sloan Foundation on behalf of Internet Archive TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20070613184827/http

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