Technological singularity
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The technological singularity, often simply called the singularity, is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates beyond human control, producing unpredictable changes in human civ
Ray Kurzweil writes that, due to paradigm shifts, a trend of exponential growth extends Moore's law from integrated circuits to earlier transistors, vacuum tubes, relays, and electromechanical computers. He predicts that the exponential growth will continue, and that in a few decades the computing power of all computers will exceed that of ("unenhanced") human brains, with superhuman artificial intelligence appearing around the same time.
Schematic Timeline of Information and Replicators in the Biosphere: Gillings et al.'s "major evolutionary transitions" in information processing.
Amount of digital information worldwide (5×1021 bytes) versus human genome information worldwide (1019 bytes) in 2014
Vernor Vinge
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Vernor Steffen Vinge was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the tech
Technological singularity
…Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge, first in a 1983 op-ed in Omni magazine arguing that once humans create intelligences greater than their own, there will be a technological and social…
Vinge in 2006
Vernor Vinge in 2008