singularity

It was a scene from a beautiful film: the dusty San Francisco evening light filtered through the large windows of the exquisite Marina mansion of PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Heaps of chipped ice kept shrimp and oysters cool. Waiters in black passed plates of canapés and glasses of champagne and Monterey County pinot noir.

Humans already have, in one sense, created a form of intelligent A.I. Not a very intelligent form, and certainly not a self-replicating form, but a form of intelligence nonetheless.