In technology, the singularity describes a hypothetical future where technology growth is out of control and irreversible
These intelligent and powerful technologies will radically and unpredictably transform our reality.
Most notably, the singularity would involve computer programs becoming so advanced that artificial intelligence (AI) transcends human intelligence, potentially erasing the boundary between humanity and computers. Nanotechnology is perceived as one of the key technologies that will make singularity a reality. This intelligence explosion will significantly impact human civilization. These computer programs and AI will turn into superintelligent machines with cognitive capacity beyond human capabilities.To provide a bit of background, John von Neumann -- a Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, physicist and polymath -- first discussed the concept of technological singularity early in the 20th century. Since then, many authors have either echoed this viewpoint or adapted it in their writing. These stories were often apocalyptic and described a future where superintelligence upgrades itself and accelerates development at an incomprehensible rate. This is because machines take over their own development from their human creators, who lack their cognitive capabilities
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The technological singularity—or simply the singularity is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth will become radically faster and uncontrollable, resulting in unforeseeable changes to 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
Four polls of AI researchers, conducted in 2012 and 2013 by Nick Bostrom and Vincent C. Müller, suggested a confidence of 50% that artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be developed by 2040–2050
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