Exploring the “Singularity”.
It is possible that technological change will soon become so rapid that we cannot predict its results. A number of scientists believe that machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence within a few decades, leading to what is now called the “Singularity.” Author and inventor Ray Kurzweil de...
| Published in: | Futurist Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 18 - 25 |
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World Future Society
May/June 2003
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