{"id":198001,"date":"2024-10-20T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/the-singularity-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-may-mean"},"modified":"2024-10-20T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:27:29","slug":"the-singularity-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-may-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/the-singularity-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-may-mean","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity Is Coming Soon. Here\u2019s What It May Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-singularity-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-may-mean3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become smarter than humans. He called this inflection point the \u201csingularity,\u201d and it struck a chord. Kurzweil, who\u2019s been tracking artificial intelligence since 1963, gained a fanatical following, especially in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes <em>The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with A.I.<\/em> where Kurzweil steps up the Singularity\u2019s arrival timeline to 2029. \u201cAlgorithmic innovations and the emergence of big data have allowed AI to achieve startling breakthroughs sooner than expected,\u201d reports Kurzweil. From winning at games like <em>Jeopardy! <\/em>and <em>Go<\/em> to driving automobiles, writing essays, passing bar exams, and diagnosing cancer, chunks of the Singularity are arriving daily, and there\u2019s more good news just ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Very soon, predicts Kurzweil, artificial general intelligence will be able to do anything a human can do, only better. Expect 3D printed clothing and houses by the end of this decade. Look for medical cures that will \u201cadd decades to human life spans\u201d just ahead. \u201cThese are the most exciting and momentous years in all of history,\u201d Kurzweil noted in an interview with <em>Boston Globe<\/em> science writer Brian Bergstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become smarter than humans. He called this inflection point the \u201csingularity,\u201d and it struck a chord. Kurzweil, who\u2019s been tracking artificial intelligence since 1963, gained a fanatical following, especially in Silicon Valley. Now comes The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with A.I. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198001","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=198001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}