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Vinge's 1993 VISION-21 paper uses 'superintelligence' for minds that exceed human intelligence, distinguishing a 'fast thinking' form he calls weak superhumanity. Copy claim link
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Date 1993-12 · publication Records dated 1993 → Scope and limits A located use; not evidence of coinage. The paper’s own vocabulary is mainly ‘superhuman intelligence’ and ‘superhumanity’. It held the earliest-located role in the candidate pack until the cross-family check located Schwartz’s report of March 1986, recorded separately; the collection keeps the change as a correction.
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The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ NASA (VISION-21 proceedings, NASA Conference Publication 10129) · 1993-12
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Source excerpt “Most speculations about superintelligence seem to be based on the weakly superhuman model.” Location in source PDF p. 5 (printed p. 15)
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Source details and check notes Authors Vernor Vinge Version NASA Technical Reports Server scan of the proceedings pages, pp. 11–22; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash both candidate searches recorded, and checked against its text layer. The pre-1996 candidate search compared pp. 14–16 with the page images. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-04-15: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-04-15. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in VISION-21, NASA CP-10129 (1993), pp. 11–22. Reuse Public use permitted, according to the NASA Technical Reports Server record.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 54) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the earliest-located role moved to an earlier report was applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ NASA (VISION-21 proceedings, NASA Conference Publication 10129) · 1993-12
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Source excerpt “I call this "fast thinking" form of superintelligence "weak superhumanity" Location in source PDF p. 5 (printed p. 15)
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Source details and check notes Authors Vernor Vinge Version NASA Technical Reports Server scan of the proceedings pages, pp. 11–22; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash both candidate searches recorded, and checked against its text layer. The pre-1996 candidate search compared pp. 14–16 with the page images. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-04-15: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-04-15. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in VISION-21, NASA CP-10129 (1993), pp. 11–22. Reuse Public use permitted, according to the NASA Technical Reports Server record.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (10 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 54) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the earliest-located role moved to an earlier report was applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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