Against the singularity hypothesis.
The singularity hypothesis is a hypothesis about the future of artificial intelligence on which self-improving artificial agents will quickly become orders of magnitude more intelligent than the average human. Despite the ambitiousness of its claims, the singularity hypothesis has been defended at l...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 7; pp. 1627 - 1652 |
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Jul2025
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