{"id":171045,"date":"2023-08-31T22:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/superintelligence-rising-are-we-prepared-for-artificially-created-minds"},"modified":"2023-08-31T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:28:21","slug":"superintelligence-rising-are-we-prepared-for-artificially-created-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/superintelligence-rising-are-we-prepared-for-artificially-created-minds","title":{"rendered":"Superintelligence Rising \u2014 Are We Prepared for Artificially Created Minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superintelligence-rising-are-we-prepared-for-artificially-created-minds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1993, acclaimed sci-fi author and computer scientist Vernor Vinge made a bold prediction \u2013 within 30 years, advances in technology would enable the creation of artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence, leading to \u201cthe end of the human era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vinge theorized that once AI becomes capable of recursively improving itself, it would trigger a feedback loop of rapid, exponential improvements to AI systems. This hypothetical point in time when AI exceeds human intelligence has become known as \u201cthe Singularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While predictions of superhuman AI may have sounded far-fetched in 1993, today they are taken seriously by many AI experts and tech investors seeking to develop \u201cartificial general intelligence\u201d or AGI \u2013 AI capable of fully matching human performance on any intellectual task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993, acclaimed sci-fi author and computer scientist Vernor Vinge made a bold prediction \u2013 within 30 years, advances in technology would enable the creation of artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence, leading to \u201cthe end of the human era.\u201d Vinge theorized that once AI becomes capable of recursively improving itself, it would trigger a feedback [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171045","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}