For 130,000 years our capacity for reason has remained unchanged. The combined intellect of the neuroscientists, engineers, mathematicians pales in comparison to even the most basic AI. Once online, a sentient machine will quickly overcome the limits of biology. And in a short time, its analytical power will be greater than the collective intelligence of every person born in the history of the world. Some scientists refer to this as the Singularity. I call it Transcendence.
-Oh, my God!
-I can’t feel anything.
-I’m here.
-You need to get me online, I need more power.
-He may be intelligent, maybe even sentient. This is not Will.
-Shut it down.
-Shut it down?! It’s him!
-Your friends crossed the line. They don’t know the danger.
-This is astounding.
-So, how do we fight it?
-Where are you going?
-Everywhere.
