technological singularity
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The technological singularity is a hypothetical future point at which artificial intelligence becomes capable of redesigning itself, leading to rapid improvements in its own intelligence that could trigger unpredictable technological and social changes. It matters because some people believe such an event could fundamentally transform human civilization in ways we cannot currently foresee or control.
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The technological singularity, often simply called the singularity, is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates beyond human control, producing unpredictable changes in human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent agent could eventually enter a positive feedback loop of successive self-improvement cycles; more intelligent generations would appear more and more rapidly, causing an explosive increase in intelligence that culminates in a powerful superintelligence, far surpassing human intelligence.
Some scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have expressed concern that artificial superintelligence could result in human extinction. The consequences of a technological singularity and its potential benefit or harm to the human species have been intensely debated.