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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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To: circlecity

What Is Singularity in Technology and AI? | Definition from ...

TechTarget
https://www.techtarget.com › searchenterpriseai › Singu...
Aug 28, 2024 — In technology, the singularity describes a hypothetical future where technology growth is out of control and irreversible.


21 posted on 07/02/2025 8:38:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Drones have forever changed fighting wars/with Navy/Army top water or below and anything that flies)
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To: cuz1961

The definition of “the singularity” seems to have changed over the past few years. It used be a term to describe the moment that AI becomes self-aware. In this article it is used to describe the emergence of a hybrid human-AI consciousness. This kind of “moving the goal posts” suggests that evil people have already allowed the first definition to happen, and are now working on the second.


22 posted on 07/02/2025 8:48:55 AM PDT by happyathome
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To: cuz1961

Well, someone has already reached stupidarity if he thinks so..


23 posted on 07/02/2025 8:52:04 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: cuz1961

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet fights back.


24 posted on 07/02/2025 9:04:09 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: mass55th
"...so who gives a crap."

All the people living after you're dead.

25 posted on 07/02/2025 9:05:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: cuz1961

Yes, in just 20 years... Which will be a mere 60 years after the paperless office!


26 posted on 07/02/2025 9:06:15 AM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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To: yesthatjallen
"All the people living after you're dead."

I'm not going to be worrying about anything or anyone when I'm dead.

27 posted on 07/02/2025 9:08:36 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: cuz1961

Good thing we’ll all be dead to global warming in 5+ years.


28 posted on 07/02/2025 9:12:39 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Delta 21

The term “absorption” must not have played well with the focus groups.


29 posted on 07/02/2025 9:14:11 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: cuz1961

Twenty years, just after global warming has killed every man, woman, and child on the earth. That’s right, it’s gonna wait until we’re all dead to take over. Which I think is cheating.


30 posted on 07/02/2025 9:28:26 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: cuz1961

In the year 2045, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find ...


31 posted on 07/02/2025 9:29:46 AM PDT by x
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To: cuz1961
Yeah sure. With 30-40 million criminal cell phone-addicted room-temperature-IQ migrants spawning anchor babies at record rates, and driving on the road as though pedestrians in crosswalks are fair game to turn into roadkill, we are sure going to have to be addressing AGI and ASI in the near future.

Can't wait for CW II to finally get here and give them and their political enablers exactly what they truly deserve.

32 posted on 07/02/2025 9:34:06 AM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: cuz1961

I look at predictions about technology in the future and see a theme of not understanding humanities interaction with the technology....I believe that most evaluations of where we will go with AI to be wrong and flawed. that said I think it will be verry destructive to society norms.


33 posted on 07/02/2025 9:35:43 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: cuz1961

Another “scientist” says something.


34 posted on 07/02/2025 9:46:53 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words. )
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To: webheart

I am still waiting for my hover car, since they 1970’s.


35 posted on 07/02/2025 9:48:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: webheart

since THE 1970’s.


36 posted on 07/02/2025 9:49:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: cuz1961

So-—and I know every “end times” interpretation has its own timetable-—but the “this generation will not pass away until” prophecy by Jesus that MOST attribute as a reference to the May 1946 re-establishment of Israel as a state winds up right about that time.


37 posted on 07/02/2025 9:54:42 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: cuz1961

Nonsense!


38 posted on 07/02/2025 10:29:25 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: cuz1961

It will create a being that can truly do absolutely nothing.


39 posted on 07/02/2025 10:30:13 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Grampa Dave

lol. So, supernatural.


40 posted on 07/02/2025 10:35:50 AM PDT by circlecity
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