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{{A|tech|[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]}}{{g}} | {{A|tech|[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]}}{{g}}The [[singularity]] is that yet-to-arrive-but-imminent moment where [[artificial intelligence]] becomes self aware, connects at a spooky quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff.”</ref> across the distributed network substrate and, from the [[I am a Strange Loop - Book Review|strangely loopy]] [[algorithm]] that action writes, a new super consciousness will emerge and, to put it briefly, the universe will [[wake up]]. | ||
Also known in some circles as the [[end of days]]. | |||
This gets people like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} quite jazzed, but it makes [[me]] sad, especially given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Are we really so feeble we are losing this fight? Why didn't the universe wake up when ''we'' became self-aware? | This gets people like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} quite jazzed, but it makes [[me]] sad, especially given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Are we really so feeble we are losing this fight? Why didn't the universe wake up when ''we'' became self-aware? |