Technological singularity
- In popular culture
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Isaac Asimov's 1950 story "The Evitable Conflict", (the last part of the I, Robot collection) features the Machines, four supercomputers managing the world's economy. The computers are incomprehensibl ...
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- Criticisms
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Some critics assert that no computer or machine will ever achieve human intelligence, while others hold that the definition of intelligence is irrelevant if the net result is the same.Steven Pinker st ...
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- Accelerating change
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Main article: Accelerating changeSome singularity proponents argue its inevitability through extrapolation of past trends, especially those pertaining to shortening gaps between improvements to techno ...
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- Intelligence explosion
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The notion of an "intelligence explosion" was first described thus by Good (1965), who speculated on the effects of superhuman machines:Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can ...
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- History of the idea
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Nicholas de Condorcet, the 18th century French mathematician, philosopher, and revolutionary, is commonly credited for being one of the earliest persons to contend the existence of a singularity. In h ...
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- Basic concepts
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Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and argue that it is diff ...
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- Technological singularity
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The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence, radicall ...
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