Technological singularity
PREDICTED FUTURE EVENT IN WHICH A SUPERHUMAN ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IS MADE THAT ITERATIVELY REDESIGNS ITSELF TO RAPIDLY BECOME MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT, AND A RAPID GENERAL TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE FOLLOWS THAT IS BEYOND PREDICTION
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The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth will become radically faster and uncontrollable, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I.