{"id":29838,"date":"2016-09-05T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/singularity-is-it-possible-has-it-already-begun"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:59","slug":"singularity-is-it-possible-has-it-already-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/singularity-is-it-possible-has-it-already-begun","title":{"rendered":"Singularity: Is It Possible? Has It Already Begun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/singularity-is-it-possible-has-it-already-begun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singularity: The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever taken a look at the constantly accelerating world of technology and thought \u201cwhat happens if these machines become more intelligent than us? Will they develop conscious thoughts and decide that we are inferior and wipe us out? Will they become our bff\u2019s for being their creators? How come our jobs are rapidly being replaced by machines? What will be the role of humans if we are no longer the most intelligent beings? Is this at all even possible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I find these ideas interesting to think about and I think the notion of singularity is a possibility that should at least be considered. In this article I\u2019m going to outline a few of the issues surrounding intelligent machines and advanced AI. As well as give some of my personal opinions about the topic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Nickflanagan\/singularity-is-it-possible-has-it-already-begun-3020ece138f4\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@Nickflanagan\/singularity-is-it-possible-...20ece138f4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singularity: The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization. Have you ever taken a look at the constantly accelerating world of technology and thought \u201cwhat happens if these machines become more intelligent than us? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60494,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838\/revisions\/60494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}