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The technological singularity —or simply the singularity[1] —is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for Human civilization. [2][3] According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good 's intelligence ...
The Singularity is Nearer (sequel) The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. A sequel book, The Singularity Is Nearer, was released on June 25, 2024. [1]
I. J. Good. Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) [1][2] was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States ...
Ray Kurzweil predicts humans and AI will merge by 2045, boosting intelligence a millionfold with nanobots, ... Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial ...
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit research institute focused since 2005 on identifying and managing potential existential risks from artificial general intelligence. MIRI's work has focused on a friendly AI approach to system design and on ...
Singularitarianism is a movement defined by the belief that a technological singularity —the creation of superintelligence —will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans. [1]
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI is a 2024 non-fiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil. It is the sequel to his 2005 bestseller book The Singularity Is Near. The book was released on June 25, 2024. He reiterates two key dates from his previous book, which predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) would reach human intelligence ...
He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology , robotics , and ...