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A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 20 Years
Popular Mechanics ^ | 6/30/2025 | Darren Orf

Posted on 07/02/2025 7:24:27 AM PDT by cuz1961

...Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed from the world of quantum physics....

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(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: ai; babel; ifhfakescience
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1 posted on 07/02/2025 7:24:27 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

There will be no merging.


2 posted on 07/02/2025 7:28:42 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: cuz1961

Uh huh... right.


3 posted on 07/02/2025 7:29:52 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: cuz1961
Then what? Spontaneous Human Combustion?


4 posted on 07/02/2025 7:30:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: cuz1961

The incels are already there...


5 posted on 07/02/2025 7:35:45 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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What does “singularity” even mean anymore?


6 posted on 07/02/2025 7:36:43 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Delta 21

Somebody’s not gonna like that...


7 posted on 07/02/2025 7:38:51 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised.)
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To: Delta 21
Six responses in and no Borg references? Tsk tsk.. d;^)

Resistance is futile?

8 posted on 07/02/2025 7:39:54 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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9 posted on 07/02/2025 7:41:00 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: circlecity
What does “singularity” even mean anymore?

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the same thing those weasels meant the 1st time ?

” first there was nothing, then nothing evolved into everything “

10 posted on 07/02/2025 7:42:01 AM PDT by cuz1961
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I wrote my senior humanities thesis on this “symbionic” relationship in 1984.

The title was MANIAC.


11 posted on 07/02/2025 7:43:45 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: cuz1961

this is a prediction of AI/Human hybrids , or, they plan for us to evolve into gods.

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12 posted on 07/02/2025 7:44:54 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

“Singularity” is more bi-polar now than anything.


13 posted on 07/02/2025 7:56:53 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: cuz1961

I’ll be dead long before then, so who gives a crap.


14 posted on 07/02/2025 7:59:20 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 20 Years

Just in time to be powered by nuclear fusion.

15 posted on 07/02/2025 8:02:12 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: cuz1961

I believe we are already slaves to computers. I can’t imagine having one hovering in my brain directing me to do what ever they “think’ is best for me ... yes master ... I hear and obey.


16 posted on 07/02/2025 8:03:46 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Resolute Conservative
"The incels are already there..."

1970s = swinging singles

2040s = swishing singulars

17 posted on 07/02/2025 8:05:51 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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"I believe we are already slaves to computers."

Ted Kaczinski's manifesto doesn't seem as nutty as it did back in the '90s.

18 posted on 07/02/2025 8:07:36 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: cuz1961

No thanks...that job is already taken...


19 posted on 07/02/2025 8:30:02 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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bkmk


20 posted on 07/02/2025 8:33:17 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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