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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Robot Chic
Brian Caulfield, 09.10.07, 6:00 AM ET
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.
And as T-shirt-clad geeks nibbled, they debated just how long people would still be considered more intelligent than machines.
Friday's soiree marked the beginning of this year's "Singularity Summit," a gathering of 900 computer scientists, techno-utopians and counterculture types, all intent on examining the proposition that machines — or rather, artificial intelligences — may one day destroy humanity. Or perhaps, save it.
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