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What is Singularity

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
The point at which a computer system will attain and move on beyond human capabilities.
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Machine Dreaming
James Frederic Pagel (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch018
Abstract
Active sleep modes, alternative logics, non-parametric programming, and extended interfaces are being incorporated into the processing capabilities of complex computer systems. While system disconnected FSM's, have only minimal capacities for achieving dream-like forms of cognitive processing, Internet connected systems can meet human-based criteria for dreaming. The Internet includes periods low data flow (system sleep). Non-parametric and fuzzy logic processing, extends system capacity and increases the possibility of alternative and/or unexpected outcomes. Neural-net processing increases the chance that results attained will be indeterminate and hallucinatory. At the interface, such machine dreams are bi-directionally incorporated into the dream consciousness of interacting humans. In order to function in the human defined environment, artificial systems require the capacity to achieve dream equivalent states.
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Singularity, or technological singularity, is the hypothetical point in the future, where artificial intelligence is believed to go beyond human intelligence and radically change civilization and human nature. It is believed that such intelligence will make the future of humanity unpredictable, as it will be more capable than imagined by humanity.
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The so-called “singularity” postulates that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will soon outdistance human intelligence and commandeer (Terminator-like) planetary authority from humanity. The Singularity is a hypothetical point in time (very soon) at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. It may be stipulated that this science fiction scenario is already becoming a science reality. The inevitability of a technological singularity—perhaps the salient issue facing “healing” of the media-field—is addressed in the MIT Technology Review by Luca Maria Aiello (2014).
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It is a period in which the speed of technological developments will increase rapidly and as a result, there will be fundamental changes in humanity.
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A future of computer intelligence feeding on itself, becoming smarter at a faster and faster rate.
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Generative AI in Higher Education
Often associated with the field of AI, it is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, leading to unforeseeable changes in human civilization. This concept is frequently linked to the emergence of AGI and the rapid acceleration of technological progress it could catalyze.
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The Dark Side of Digital Culture
A hypothetical future moment in time when technological advancement becomes irreversible and changes the course of human civilization.
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A Run for your [Techno]Self
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A hypothesis that there will be a point in time at which technological development becomes uncontrollable and irreversible. One popular version holds that this will occur with a self-improving artificial intelligence.
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