technological singularity

hypothetic future event in which artificial intelligence iteratively redesigns itself to rapidly become more intelligent, causing technological and social change beyond prediction
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technological singularity

Summary

technological singularity is a point of no return[1]. It draws 3,044 Wikipedia views per month (point_of_no_return category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • technological singularity is credited with the discovery of Vernor Vinge[3].
  • technological singularity's instance of is recorded as point of no return[4].
  • technological singularity's instance of is recorded as prediction[5].
  • technological singularity's instance of is recorded as technology risk[6].
  • technological singularity's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2017004997[7].
  • technological singularity's Commons category is recorded as Technological singularity[8].
  • technological singularity's point in time is recorded as +1983-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • technological singularity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f5kk[10].
  • technological singularity's spoken text audio is recorded as En-Technological singularity-article.opus[11].
  • technological singularity's present in work is recorded as Server Problem[12].
  • technological singularity's BBC Things ID is recorded as 5a9c0f7d-b664-407e-8779-3fb74abcd646[13].
  • technological singularity's different from is recorded as intelligence explosion[14].
  • technological singularity's different from is recorded as recursive self-improvement[15].
  • technological singularity's different from is recorded as artificial general intelligence[16].
  • technological singularity's different from is recorded as superintelligence[17].
  • technological singularity's different from is recorded as unpredictability[18].
  • technological singularity's Quora topic ID is recorded as The-Technological-Singularity[19].
  • technological singularity's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20019028[20].
  • technological singularity's subreddit is recorded as singularity[21].
  • technological singularity's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as singularity[22].
  • technological singularity's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as technological_singularity[23].
  • technological singularity's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 198643722[24].
  • technological singularity's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778708727[25].
  • technological singularity's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/TheSingularity[26].
  • technological singularity's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Singularity[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

technological singularity is credited with the discovery of Vernor Vinge[3]. Things named for it include Endgame: Singularity[28], a video game[29], founded in 2005[30].

Why It Matters

technological singularity draws 3,044 Wikipedia views per month (point_of_no_return category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Endgame: Singularity[28], a video game[29], founded in 2005[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . arstechnica.com. Retrieved . arstechnica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . reddit.com. Retrieved . reddit.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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