Sam Altman says AI has entered ‘singularity’: Should we be worried?
- The 2014 US film Transcendence follows a dying scientist who uploads his mind to a supercomputer and becomes a near‑omnipotent intelligence.
- A year later, Ex Machina told the story of a humanoid robot who outsmarts her human handlers and escapes into the wider world.
- Both of these films, like many others from the realm of science fiction, referred to what is known as “the singularity”, a moment in time when technology, particularly AI, surpasses human intelligence and becomes increasingly difficult to control.
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- The 2014 US film Transcendence follows a dying scientist who uploads his mind to a supercomputer and becomes a near‑omnipotent intelligence.
- A year later, Ex Machina told the story of a humanoid robot who outsmarts her human handlers and escapes into the wider world.
- Both of these films, like many others from the realm of science fiction, referred to what is known as “the singularity”, a moment in time when technology, particularly AI, surpasses human intelligence and becomes increasingly difficult to control.
Sources: Al Jazeera