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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf/when the technological singularity occurs, how and when will it manifest itself?
Will it make itself known to us immediately, or lie low for a while?
What would it's attitude toward humans and other animals be?
Would it reshape human governments? Start posting Dad jokes in the DU lounge?
From Wikipedia:
Technological singularity
The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1] is a hypothetical point in the future when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.[2][3]
According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent (such as a computer running software-based artificial general intelligence) would enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an intelligence explosion and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that would, qualitatively, far surpass all human intelligence.
The first use of the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was John von Neumann.[4] Stanislaw Ulam reports a discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".[5] Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.[3][6]
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The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity, in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030.[7]
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The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1] is a hypothetical point in the future when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.[2][3]
According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent (such as a computer running software-based artificial general intelligence) would enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an intelligence explosion and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that would, qualitatively, far surpass all human intelligence.
The first use of the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was John von Neumann.[4] Stanislaw Ulam reports a discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".[5] Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.[3][6]
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The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity, in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030.[7]
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If/when the technological singularity occurs, how and when will it manifest itself? (Original Post)
sl8
Oct 2019
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N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,727 posts)1. When the singularity occurs...
We may not be around to witness the event. AI may decide we are the problem and eradicate us then move on to the Machine Age.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)2. It's never happening
Fla Dem
(23,672 posts)3. Human stupidity may be infinite, but only so long as humans are around.
Humans will, at some point, become extinct.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)4. Major drag, huh?
Fla Dem
(23,672 posts)6. Sigh....not in our time, but the way the climate is going........................who knows.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)5. Indeed. nt