{"id":162273,"date":"2023-04-16T12:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/explaining-the-singularity"},"modified":"2023-04-16T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T17:24:48","slug":"explaining-the-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/explaining-the-singularity","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQkNtJvcOTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Singularity is a technological event horizon beyond which we cannot see \u2013 a moment in future history when exponential progress makes the impossible possible. This video discusses the concept of the Singularity, related technologies including AI, synthetic biology, cybernetics and quantum computing, and their potential implications.<\/p>\n<p>My previous video \u201cAI, Robots &amp; the Future\u201d is here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iaGIo_Viazs.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iaGIo_Viazs.\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iaGIo_Viazs.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The episode on \u201cThe Metaverse: A Facebook Fantasy?\u201d is here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Metaverse: A Facebook Fantasy?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shW8MIbNyuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And I have a video on \u201cNanotechnology 2.0\u201d here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X14sRtcHJXs.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X14sRtcHJXs.\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X14sRtcHJXs.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links to websites shown in the video are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Amyris (synthetic biology pioneer):<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/explaining-the-singularity\">Continue reading \u201cExplaining the Singularity\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singularity is a technological event horizon beyond which we cannot see \u2013 a moment in future history when exponential progress makes the impossible possible. This video discusses the concept of the Singularity, related technologies including AI, synthetic biology, cybernetics and quantum computing, and their potential implications. My previous video \u201cAI, Robots &amp; the Future\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,4,1617,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}