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Technological Singularity

The singularity is defined by Ray Kurzweil as the time when technology is advancing so fast that humankind can no longer keep track of it. That is to say, the birth of a super-intelligent artificial intelligence.

It is considered an unavoidable consequence of the exponential growth in technology which by 2029 will see $1,000 of computing power being a thousand times more powerful than the human brain in the near future.

An intelligence explosion occurs when a seed AI becomes powerful enough to improve itself – which means not only is its power improving, but the thing that is improving its power is improving too, leading to a rapid, self-recursive, super-exponential increase in its intelligence.

Resources

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Amazon

Examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine

The Singularity Is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Amazon

Vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists written by Michio Kaku

Scythe

Amazon

Dystopian book of a thrilling new series written by Neal Shusterman

Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World

Amazon

This book focuses on the implications of a future society faced with an abundance of human and artificial intelligence written by James D. Miller

Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence

Amazon

A guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment and the possible creation of a superintelligence written by Calum Chace

Humanity’s Future: How Technology Will Change Us

Amazon

Book about futurism and technology written by Jay Friedenberg

Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine

Amazon

How do we embrace technology without becoming it, written by Gerd Leonhard

Alex Vikoulov

Futurist, author and CEO of Ecstadelic Media Group

Living in the Age of the Jerk - author talk

22-Oct-2020

Join the debate with Michael Baxter at London Futurists

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Technological Singularity Blog Posts

Exponential growth in ageing research
06-Dec-2023

Exponential growth in ageing research

How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine

Even better than exponential growth
15-May-2013

Even better than exponential growth

Adding more people to the knowledge economy will speed up the already exponential increase in human understanding

Recent News

Alex Vikoulov summarises his Syntellect Hypothesis

Alex Vikoulov Blog - 22-Jun-2020

Adapted from his new book that discuses cybernetic immortality

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José Luis Cordeiro looks at the positive opportunities from Covid-19

Lifeboat Foundation - 28-Apr-2020

Some interesting figures on how we are able to sequence new viruses faster and faster

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New chip makes data operations faster, easier and effective

Independent - 05-Jul-2019

Speeding up new drug discoveries and many other benefits

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UN reports massive growth in AI patents

United Nations - 31-Jan-2019

No mention of artificial general intelligence (AGI) which will be the real revolution

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The singularity is not near

Salon - 13-May-2018

Excerpt from “Live Work Work Work Die" by Corey Pein.

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