Exponential growth in ageing research
How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine
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
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
Vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists written by Michio Kaku
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
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
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
Book about futurism and technology written by Jay Friedenberg
Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine
How do we embrace technology without becoming it, written by Gerd Leonhard
Living in the Age of the Jerk - author talk
22-Oct-2020
Join the debate with Michael Baxter at London Futurists
Technological Singularity Blog Posts
06-Dec-2023
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
Read more...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
Read more...New chip makes data operations faster, easier and effective
Independent - 05-Jul-2019
Speeding up new drug discoveries and many other benefits
Read more...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
Read more...The singularity is not near
Salon - 13-May-2018
Excerpt from “Live Work Work Work Die" by Corey Pein.
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