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Subject Headings: Technological Singularity, Kurzweil's The Law of Accelerating Returns, Superintelligence Explosion Period Forecasting.

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  • (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near Retrieved:2023-8-1.
    • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

      The book builds on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil's previous books, The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990) and The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999). In the book, Kurzweil embraces the term "the singularity", which was popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity."Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating returns which predicts an exponential increase in technologies like computers, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence. Once the singularity has been reached, Kurzweil says that machine intelligence will be infinitely more powerful than all human intelligence combined. He predicts intelligence will then radiate outward from the planet until it saturates the universe. The singularity is also the point at which machines' intelligence and humans would merge; Kurzweil predicts this date: "I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045".

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2005 TheSingularityIsNearWhenHumansTRay KurzweilThe Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology2005