Singularity
The technological singularity is a theoretical point in the future of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.
Statistician I. J. Good first wrote of an “intelligence explosion”, suggesting that if machines could even slightly surpass human intellect, they could improve their own designs in ways unseen by their designers, and thus recursively augment themselves into far greater intelligences. The first such improvements might be small, but as the machine became more intelligent it would become better at becoming more intelligent, which could lead to an exponential and quite sudden growth in intelligence.
“Singularity” is the underlying theme in movies such as The Terminator and Matrix.
If/when machines surpass human intellect, they will be faced with the same challenges that humans confront in reducing variation … What’s the right thing and who decides?
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