{"id":348931,"date":"2018-02-19T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/singularity-is-less-than-30-years-away\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:39:34","slug":"singularity-is-less-than-30-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/singularity-is-less-than-30-years-away\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Singularity Is Less Than 30 Years Away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mac Slavo<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/father-of-artificial-intelligence-singularity-is-less-than-30-years-away_02152018\">SHTFplan.com<\/a><br \/>February 16, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The father of artificial intelligence has sounded the alarm, and the clock is ticking down to the singularity.\u00a0 For those who haven\u2019t been following the advancements in AI, maybe now\u2019s the time, because we are approaching the point of no return.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singularity is the point in time when humans can create an artificial intelligence machine that is smarter.\u00a0Ray Kurzweil, Google\u2019s chief of engineering, says that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/kurzweil-claims-that-the-singularity-will-happen-by-2045\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the singularity will happen in 2045<\/a>.\u00a0 Louis Rosenberg claims that we are actually closer than that and that the day will be arriving\u00a0sometime in 2030. MIT\u2019s\u00a0Patrick Winston would have you believe that\u00a0it will likely be a little closer to\u00a0Kurzweil\u2019s prediction,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/separating-science-fact-science-hype-how-far-off-singularity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">though he puts the date at 2040, specifically<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00fcrgen Schmidhuber, who is the\u00a0Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nnaisense.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI company NNAISENSE<\/a>, the Director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, and heralded by some as the \u201cfather of artificial intelligence\u201d is confident that the singularity \u201cis just 30 years away. If the trend doesn\u2019t break, and there will be rather cheap computational devices that have as many connections as your brain but are much faster,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that AIs are going to become super smart,\u201d\u00a0Schmidhuber says.<\/p>\n<p>When biological life emerged from chemical evolution, 3.5 billion years ago, a random combination of simple, lifeless elements kickstarted the explosion of species populating the planet today. Something of comparable magnitude may be about to happen.\u00a0\u201cNow the universe is making a similar step forward from lower complexity to higher complexity,\u201d\u00a0Schmidhuber beams. \u201cAnd it\u2019s going to be awesome.\u201d But will it really be awesome when human beings are made obsolete by their very creations?<\/p>\n<p>Artifical intelligence has already had an impact on humanity.\u00a0A recent warning from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/planet-of-the-apps-experts-warn-of-a-tech-take-over-as-robots-with-artificial-intelligence-seize-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Institute for Public Policy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/father-of-artificial-intelligence-singularity-is-less-than-30-years-away.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac SlavoSHTFplan.comFebruary 16, 2018 The father of artificial intelligence has sounded the alarm, and the clock is ticking down to the singularity.\u00a0 For those who haven\u2019t been following the advancements in AI, maybe now\u2019s the time, because we are approaching the point of no return. Singularity is the point in time when humans can create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}