Singularity
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The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this connection. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others; direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation. Some of these technologies seem likely to arrive much earlier than the others, but there are nonetheless several independent technologies all heading in the direction of the Singularity - several different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence.
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A poll was taken in 2007 by Bruce Klein which simply asks, "when do you think AI will surpass human-level intelligence?" Here are the results:
Source: AGI-World (Bruce Klein’s blog)
