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  • Borgzilla@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I keep hearing about the singularity, I’ve read up on it, but I still don’t get it. What is it/does it do?

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      1 year ago

      Basically it’s the concept that AI becomes “sentient”, has it’s own motives, and ability to learn

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      1 year ago

      TL;DR: It’s an expansion on Moore’s law that theorizes that science, especially AI, will continue to advance itself in a exponential feedback loop. It’s also been called The Law of Accelerating Returns, by Ray Kurzweil. His estimate was sentient AI by mid 2020’s and singularity around mid 2040’s.