I somehow doubt this, but interesting read nonetheless
I tried search the web for a particular comic - I think it might have been smbc - where the person’s prediction of when the singularity was inversely proportional to how long they had to live, but I can’t find it.
The last panel was an old guy saying “The singularity will arrive by Friday! Hopefully before 5…”
Humanity won’t be able to finish a lego build in the next 12 months.
I will happily bet any amount of money and possessions at any ratio to any “expert” that we won’t.
My entire life earnings, every possession I own, times 100, at a 1000:1 ratio. Please, “experts” bet me, I would love to go all in on this prediction.
You’re leaving money on the table if you don’t leverage your bet first by taking out loans to bet more.
Heres a summary of the predictions made, from never all the way up to within the year. It seems to me the closer you get to the dollar bill the sooner the projections become.
“Some experts predict it will never happen…”
“Some experts argue that human intelligence is more multifaceted than what the current definition of AGI describes.” (That AGI is not possible.)
“Most agree that AGI will arrive before the end of the 21st century.”
“Some researchers who’ve studied the emergence of machine intelligence think that the singularity could occur within decades.”
Current surveys of AI researchers are predicting AGI around 2040"
“Entrepreneurs are even more bullish, predicting it around ~2030”
“The CEO of Anthropic, who thinks we’re right on the threshold—give it about 12 more months or so.”
I also doubt this, even after reading this. I remain sceptical that we will ever even reach it.
I think we sooner discover that human intelligence is more “on the rails” and a “super complex flow chart” before we discover AGI.
Ok cool
Yawn. Ok buddy scientist.
The singularity is an interesting idea, but further analysis to me indicate that physical barriers will prevent it from ever happening.
Yes we have development at an increasing pace, but the barriers for improvements are increasing even more as we approach physical barriers. So we are not approaching the singularity, but we are approaching what could be the peak of fast progress, especially on living standards, where it may already have passed for the developed world.Ray Kurzweil is a brilliant man, but I think he miscalculated regarding the singularity.
Well, the guy who is probably most famous for popularizing the term had predicted the (technological) singularity around 2045.
So, maybe?
He also predicted AGI by 2029.
From 2017 https://futurism.com/kurzweil-claims-that-the-singularity-will-happen-by-2045
More recent
Scientist say it’s possible, yet let’s see Lemmy users deny this possibility.
I canceled my Popular Mechanics subscription 20 years ago because of all the improbable headlines like this. They keep doing it.
A Boltzmann brain is possible. Just not bloody likely.
