I've never heard of this definition of the singularity. Wikipedia (for whatever that's worth) defines it as follows:
"The technological singularity—or simply the singularity[1]—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization."
Humans could still be in the loop but the AI enables changes that exceed our ability to predict or contain them.
I agree with the Wikipedia definition, but I assume once technology has the ability to develop without humans, it will develop without humans.There won't be much elapsed time between these two events.
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I've never heard of this definition of the singularity. Wikipedia (for whatever that's worth) defines it as follows:
"The technological singularity—or simply the singularity[1]—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization."
Humans could still be in the loop but the AI enables changes that exceed our ability to predict or contain them.
I agree with the Wikipedia definition, but I assume once technology has the ability to develop without humans, it will develop without humans.There won't be much elapsed time between these two events.
I assume that humans will still play a role for a while - but it still seems as if going to cause massive changes to society.
Why? Humans are useful. Razing entire ecosystems isn’t.