Everyone talks about the #Singularity. Almost nobody agrees on what it actually means.
Fourteen years ago, I stopped and collected the definitions. Not two or three. Seventeen of them. Turing. Von Neumann. I.J. Good. Vinge. Kurzweil. Bostrom. Plus a few names most people have never heard.
I expected them to line up. They didn’t. Some contradict each other outright. The one word we’ve built entire movements, companies, and fortunes on turns out to mean wildly different things depending on who is holding it.
And I wrote this before ChatGPT. Before the current #AI gold rush. Before “superintelligence” became a line in quarterly earnings calls.
Read all seventeen, then tell me which one you would bet your future on. Or give me an eighteenth.
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