How close are we to the technological singularity?

It is not easy to write objectively about technological singularity, because, if we have not yet reached the rationality to solve the serious problems that our natural ecosystems are going through, it is a great contradiction to pretend to reach exponentially the highest technological development in order to solve the challenges of humanity.

Beyond this remarkable contradiction, it is estimated that we are getting closer and closer to reaching technological singularity, that is, closer to reaching the moment in which technological development will reach an unprecedented point, a moment absolutely different from everything that has gone before, because machines will equal and surpass human intelligence.

For some experts in this field, as humanity we first have the great challenge of learning to reason in a totally different way, to open our minds to understand a change that will lead to the end of the human age, as we know it now, allowing us to create mechanisms that tend to provide real answers to the problems that currently afflict humanity.

In the context of current modernity, it is assumed that devices are already capable of moderately matching the intellectual capabilities of any human being, so conducting more basic research would create innovative or disruptive conditions, which will undoubtedly enable technological devices to surpass the intellectual capabilities of the human species.

Surpassing the intellectual capabilities of the human species will imply that we will enter the so called technological singularity, which is perhaps a vague and confusing concept, but which has gained acceptance in recent years, precisely due to the great advances in artificial intelligence.

I would like to know your position on how close are we to the technological singularity?.

➊ Potapov A Technological Singularity: What Do We Really Know?. Link

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