Some futurists such as Ray Kurzweil have hypothesized that we will someday soon pass through a singularity–that is, a time period of rapid technological change beyond which we cannot envision the ...
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What is the 'singularity' in the first place? 'Singularity' is a term that appears in research fields such as artificial intelligence and the humanities, but when physicists use it when discussing the ...
Sci-fi depictions of the future would have us thinking of the singularity — when A.I surpasses human intelligence — as either a technological messiah or the apocalypse. Experts in the field hold ...
An Italian company has unveiled a novel method of measuring AI progress: analyzing improvements in machine translation. Translated, a provider of translation services, used the approach to predict ...
Technology has advanced leaps and bounds for quite a long time now. We’ve gone from steam power to tablet computers in something like 200 years. This trend has been most apparent during the last ...
Current thinking (ie wot I have recently heard) suggests that The Singularity exists outside our 4 dimensions and that space as we know it co-exists with the singularity. In terms of an observer in ...
Q: So what is this “Technological Singularity” I keep hearing about? In the broadest sense it refers to “an event or phase brought about by technology that will radically change human civilization, ...