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It’s called the technological singularity. Pretty fun so far!


This isn't what is usually meant by "technological singularity". It is an inflection point where technology growth becomes incontrollable and unpredictable, usually theorized to be cause by a self improving agent (/AI) that becomes smarter with each of its iterations. This is still standard technological progress, human control, even if very fast


It’s basically when AI starts self-improving. I think this started with large language models. They are central to these developments. Complete autonomy is not required for AGI-nor therefore for the singularity.

Whatever it is, this is a massive phase shift.


It's not really "human controlled". It's an evolutionary process, researchers are scanning the space of possibilities, each with a limited view, but in aggregate it has an emergent positive trend.




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