![]() ![]() People intuitively assume that the current rate of progress will continue for future periods. ![]() Kurzweil says that people don't expect the Singularity because they don't realize that technological progress is largely exponential, not linear: What, then, is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Though earlier users of the term "technological Singularity" used it to refer to the arrival of machine superintelligence (an event beyond which our ability to predict the future breaks down), Kurzweil's Singularity is more vaguely defined: Ray Kurzweil's writings are the best-known expression of Singularity memes, so I figured it's about time I read his 2005 best-seller The Singularity is Near. ![]()
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