topic Re: Singularity in Community Chat

Singularity

ical — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:32:22 GMT

What are your thoughts on this? Science fiction? Or is being human going to be "old school" and too much of a burden, and progressively the move is in that direction under most people's noses--aka someday science fact?

Re: Singularity

minkbunny — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:51:20 GMT

I don't even know what it means and don't care enough to Google.

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MomOf4 — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:55:07 GMT

What the heck???

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kittymomNC — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:57:03 GMT

I really don't mean anything offensive by this and hope you won't take it that way, but I'm curious. You do ask some rather "strange" questions sometimes. I think I'm a very intelligent person, but I don't even know what you mean by this or a few other things you've said or questioned. Where do these things come from?

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LizAnne_1 — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:00:38 GMT

I was curious enough to google. Interesting and it seems to me we are on our way there.

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focksie — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:01:17 GMT

I am singularly confused.

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minkbunny — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:02:12 GMT

I thought it was a new dating site

Re: Singularity

NoelSeven — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:09:04 GMT

Technological singularity, as with artificial intelligence?

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NoelSeven — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:11:25 GMT

On 10/11/2014 minkbunny said:
I don't even know what it means and don't care enough to Google.

I overhear DH and DD debating this possibility every so often. It's also a term used in science fiction. I think we used to hear it every so often on Star Trek.

Re: Singularity

Mama Mia — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:11:48 GMT

"One singular sensation, every little step she takes". (A Chorus Line")

Noel,already looked it up, and you are right.

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LizAnne_1 — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:12:27 GMT

On 10/11/2014 NoelSeven said:
Technological singularity, as with artificial intelligence?

That's what I take the OP to mean.

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sylviahomeatlast — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:13:20 GMT

is it some scientology term?

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RoughDraft — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:13:36 GMT

Twenty years ago, I could possibly visualize it. Lately though, the planet in general seems to be taking one step forward and three steps back.

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NoelSeven — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:13:40 GMT

On 10/11/2014 Mama Mia said:
"One singular sensation, every little step she takes". (A Chorus Line"

Noel,already looked it up, and you are right.

Hi

mm

Hi MM!

We are a house of science fiction addicts, and I include myself

Re: Singularity

focksie — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:13:57 GMT

On 10/11/2014 NoelSeven said:
Technological singularity, as with artificial intelligence?

Hi Noel, I guess you're right. From Wikipedia:

The technological singularity hypothesis is that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing or even ending civilization in an event called the singularity.^[1] Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events are unpredictable or even unfathomable.^[2]

The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann. In 1958, regarding a summary of a conversation with von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam described "ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".^[3] The term was popularized by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who argues that artificial intelligence, human biological enhancement, or brain–computer interfaces could be possible causes of the singularity.^[4]

Re: Singularity

Jig Saw — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:15:48 GMT

Nope, will never happen.

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sylviahomeatlast — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:15:53 GMT

hmmmm......I have doubts about this

Re: Singularity

NoelSeven — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:16:07 GMT

On 10/11/2014 sylviahomeatlast said:
is it some scientology term?

No. I'm not the house expert, but basically it's about questioning the possibility of artificial intelligence at some point surpassing human intelligence.

Re: Singularity

sylviahomeatlast — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:16:13 GMT

JMHO

Re: Singularity

RoughDraft — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:16:31 GMT

I think the OP is doing a ""time study"" on how long it takes us to google it. Around 45 minutes!