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Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 6 Months, Scientists Suggest
Popular Mechanics ^ | 06 01 2025 | Darren Orf

Posted on 06/02/2025 8:26:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The world is awash in predictions of when the singularity will occur or when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive. Some experts predict it will never happen, while others are marking their calendars for 2026.

A new macro analysis of surveys over the past 15 years shows where scientists and industry experts stand on the question and how their predictions have changed over time, especially after the arrival of large language models like ChatGPT.

Although predictions vary across a span of almost a half-century, most agree than AGI will arrive before the end of the 21st century.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; computers; singularity
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1 posted on 06/02/2025 8:26:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Popular Mechanics sure has fallen.


2 posted on 06/02/2025 8:35:03 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: yesthatjallen
most agree than AGI will arrive before the end of the 21st century

I agree and it will be used for evil near the end of the century as part of what happens in the soon-coming seven-year tribulation.

The end of the seven-year turbulation will be punctuated by the return of Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords of the earth I believe before the end of the 21st century. 1000 years of peace to follow.

A whole new ballgame coming soon.

3 posted on 06/02/2025 8:35:41 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: yesthatjallen

the end of life on earth has been predicted by people and groups throughout history.


4 posted on 06/02/2025 8:45:41 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Jim W N

AI Antichrist, or the Beast?


5 posted on 06/02/2025 8:51:40 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Sopranos:

Quasimodo predicted all of this.

Who did what ?


6 posted on 06/02/2025 8:59:58 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Alas Babylon!
AI Antichrist, or the Beast?

At some point soon, I believe that's where AI will go but only for a short time.

7 posted on 06/02/2025 9:10:08 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’ll take that bet. I’ll even spot you 10 centuries, Popular Mechanics, just because I’m a risky gambler.


8 posted on 06/02/2025 9:19:40 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Its already happened. If they are publicly raising concerns now, its to soften the blow when the truth comes out.

I have gone by a statement I heard from former CIA director Gates when I was 23 or so. In a nutshell, he said if you are hearing about now, government has had it for years. he followed up with saying “We have stuff Tom Clancy hasn’t thought of yet” That was 1992 or so.


9 posted on 06/02/2025 10:09:43 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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To: yesthatjallen

sin·gu·lar·i·ty
/ˌsiNGɡyəˈlerədē/
noun

1. the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.
“he believed in the singularity of all cultures”

2. Physics•Mathematics
a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole.


10 posted on 06/02/2025 10:21:10 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: yesthatjallen

Another link really worth reading...

https://www.thecompendium.ai/summary


11 posted on 06/02/2025 10:40:32 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: elpadre

Once AI finds out that humans are defective we are gone!


12 posted on 06/02/2025 11:03:34 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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To: ronnie raygun

Will AI take the side of the sinner or he saint??


13 posted on 06/02/2025 11:36:01 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: BudgieRamone

““We have stuff Tom Clancy hasn’t thought of yet” That was 1992 or so.”

Yes, the CIA has futuristic machines that slept through Tet, didn’t predict the fall of the Berlin Wall and missed 9-11.


14 posted on 06/02/2025 4:57:45 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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