What makes an intelligence explosion so worrisome is that intelligence is not a tool or a technology.

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Proponents of the singularity typically state that an intelligence explosion is a key factor of the Singularity where super-intelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds.

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It followed speculation that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had intelligence before the explosion and made mistakes in its subsequent investigation of the atrocity.

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NAZRAN, Russia -- The Russian intelligence service has blamed Chechen rebels for an explosion that killed a high-ranking official.

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In coming years, we will witness an explosion in the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology.

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This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.

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