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I never really liked "singularity" as a term. If only because I like it's actual mathematical meaning. I always thought of the main event as AI intelligence ove
by tim333 1y ago
I never really liked "singularity" as a term. If only because I like it's actual mathematical meaning. I always thought of the main event as AI intelligence overtaking human intelligence.
(you can get a mathematical singularity if you consider amount of stuff that can be produced per hour of human labour which should go infinite around the robot uprising)
- ben_w 1y ago> (you can get a mathematical singularity if you consider amount of stuff that can be produced per hour of human labour which should go infinite around the robot uprising) Nah, even then it's only exponential, not a mathematical singularity. Whatever the doubling period is for the e.g. von Neumann machines, but it doesn't go to infinity in finite time.
- tim333 1y agoI think that one does because if you need zero hours of human labour then output/(human labour hours) goes to division by zero.
- ben_w 1y agoAh, I see now what you mean; yes, that's a potential mathematical singularity. Though I suspect the actual number of human hours worked doesn't really go to zero for cultural/psychological reasons, your point remains valid as we will only find out if/when it happens.