{"id":35944,"date":"2017-04-06T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/human-level-ai-are-probably-a-lot-closer-than-you-think"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:52","slug":"human-level-ai-are-probably-a-lot-closer-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/human-level-ai-are-probably-a-lot-closer-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Human-Level AI Are Probably A Lot Closer Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although some thinkers use the term \u201csingularity\u201d to refer to any dramatic paradigm shift<\/a> in the way we think and perceive our reality, in most conversations The Singularity refers to the point at which AI surpasses human intelligence. What that point looks like, though, is subject to debate, as is the date when it will happen.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with<\/a> Inverse<\/i><\/a>, Stanford University business and energy and earth sciences graduate student Damien Scott provided his definition of singularity: the moment when humans can no longer predict the motives of AI. Many people envision singularity as some apocalyptic moment of truth with a clear point of epiphany. Scott doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll start to see narrow artificial intelligence domains that keep getting better than the best human,\u201d Scott told Inverse<\/i>. Calculators already outperform us, and there\u2019s evidence that within two to three years, AI will outperform the best radiologists<\/a> in the world. In other words, the singularity is already happening across each specialty and industry touched by AI \u2014 which, soon enough, will be all of them. If you\u2019re of the mind that the singularity means catastrophe for humans, this likens the process for humans to the experience of the frogs placed into the pot of water that slowly comes to a boil: that is to say, killing us so slowly that we don\u2019t notice it\u2019s already begun.<\/p>\n

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Although some thinkers use the term \u201csingularity\u201d to refer to any dramatic paradigm shift in the way we think and perceive our reality, in most conversations The Singularity refers to the point at which AI surpasses human intelligence. What that point looks like, though, is subject to debate, as is the date when it will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58147,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944\/revisions\/58147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}