“This is the end,” the pioneering roboticist and artificial intelligence researcher Hans Moravec wrote in 1987. Humanity, he believed, was on the cusp of transcending the cumbersome process of Darwinian evolution—and with it, mortality itself. Our physical bodies would be discarded, and in their place would rise robotic ü bermenschen. O ur minds, so tragically prone to decline as we age, would be transferred to flawless, immortal code. Machines were about to mature “from the simple devices they still are, to entities as complex as ourselves, to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves…
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