It feels like we’re on the brink of something
It feels like we’re on the brink of something
Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine
Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires
How are you feeling these days?
We sure do live in interesting times
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I've been waiting for an AI that can usher us into the technological singularity, and I think we're finally on the cusp of evolution and immortality.
1 0 ReplyI keep hearing about the singularity, I've read up on it, but I still don't get it. What is it/does it do?
1 0 ReplyBasically it's the concept that AI becomes "sentient", has it's own motives, and ability to learn
3 0 ReplyTL;DR: It's an expansion on Moore's law that theorizes that science, especially AI, will continue to advance itself in a exponential feedback loop. It's also been called The Law of Accelerating Returns, by Ray Kurzweil. His estimate was sentient AI by mid 2020's and singularity around mid 2040's.
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