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The Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann (1903-1957) became the first known person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context. [5] [6] Alan Turing, often regarded as the father of modern computer science, laid a crucial foundation for the contemporary discourse on the technological singularity. His pivotal ...
He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace". [3] He won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
Moore's Law An updated version of Moore's Law over 120 years (based on Kurzweil's graph).The 7 most recent data points are all Nvidia GPUs.. A fundamental pillar of Kurzweil's argument is that to get to the singularity, computational capacity is as much of a bottleneck as other things like quality of algorithms and understanding of the human brain.
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]
By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner.. A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it ...
Theodore Modis (born August 11, 1943) is a strategic business analyst, futurist, physicist, and international consultant.He specializes in applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena.
Ray Kurzweil predicts humans and AI will merge by 2045, boosting intelligence a millionfold with nanobots, bringing both hope and challenges for the future.
Although technological singularity is a popular concept in science fiction, authors such as Neal Stephenson [81] and Bruce Sterling have voiced skepticism about its real-world plausibility. Sterling expressed his views on the singularity scenario in a talk in 2004 at the Long Now Foundation called The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole.