Quotes About Singularity

I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045. The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.

Although the Singularity has many faces, its most important implication is this: our technology will match and then vastly exceed the refinement and suppleness of what we regard as the best of human traits.

Our human intelligence is based on computational processes that we are learning to understand. We will ultimately multiply our intellectual powers by applying and extending the methods of human intelligence using the vastly greater capacity of nonbiological computation. So to consider the ultimate limits of computation is really to ask: what is the destiny of our civilization?

Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.

The Singularity involves an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution.

Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.

GEORGE 2048: We like to think of it as one civilization.

Machines can pool their resources, intelligence, and memories. Two machines—or one million machines—can join together to become one and then become separate again. Multiple machines can do both at the same time: become one and separate simultaneously. Humans call this falling in love, but our biological ability to do this is fleeting and unreliable.

Von Neumann makes two important observations here: acceleration and singularity. The first idea is that human progress is exponential (that is, it expands by repeatedly multiplying by a constant) rather than linear (that is, expanding by repeatedly adding a constant).

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems with limited resources, including limitations of time. The Singularity will be characterized by the rapid cycle of human intelligence—increasingly nonbiological—capable of comprehending and leveraging its own powers.

Ray Kurzweil La Singularidad está cerca Cuando los humanos transcendamos la biología

Entonces ¿qué es la Singularidad? Es un tiempo venidero en el que el ritmo del cambio tecnológico será tan rápido y su repercusión tan profunda que la vida humana se verá transformada de forma irreversible. Aunque ni utópica ni distópica, esta era transformará los conceptos de los que dependemos a la hora de dar significado a nuestras vidas, ya sea en lo que se refiere a modelos de negocios o al ciclo de la vida (incluyendo la muerte).

The Law of Accelerating Returns: As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up (that is, the time interval between salient events grows shorter as time passes).

Machine intelligence will improve its own abilities in a feedback cycle that unaided human intelligence will not be able to follow.

The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding at an exponential pace.

What, then, is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.

The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding at an exponential pace. Exponential growth is deceptive. It starts out almost imperceptibly and then explodes with unexpected fury

Just as we find it hard to see beyond the event horizon of a black hole, we also find it difficult to see beyond the event horizon of the historical Singularity. How can we, with our brains each limited to 10^16 to 10^19 cps, imagine what our future civilization in 2099 with its 10^60 cps will be capable of thinking and doing?

To return to the infinite regress and the futility of invoking God to terminate it, it is more parsimonious to conjure up, say, a 'big bang singularity', or some other physical concept as yet unknown. Calling it God is at best unhelpful and at worst perniciously misleading.

And there's a whole spectrum of behavior that we refer to politely as 'eccentricity.

MEEEEE!" it bellowed. She jumped back again, dropping the basket lid. What the devil? She opened it again, and looked down at the wee thing. "MEEEEEE!" "Good heavens, you are loud," she told it. "I thought cats were supposed to say 'meow.' There are two syllables in meow." "MEEEEEE!" It corrected vehemently and with great singularity.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.