Technological singularity
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"We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race."--"Darwin among the Machines" (1863) by Samuel Butler |
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The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.
According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence.
See also
- Accelerating change
- Artificial consciousness
- Artificial intelligence arms race
- Artificial intelligence in fiction
- Brain simulation
- Brain–computer interface
- Emerging technologies
- Ephemeralization
- Fermi paradox
- Flynn effect
- Futures studies
- Global brain
- Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
- Mind uploading
- Neuroenhancement
- Robot learning
- Singularitarianism
- Technological determinism
- Technological revolution
- Technological unemployment
- Transhumanism
- The Man Who Evolved
