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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (beehaw.org)
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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

How are you feeling these days?

We sure do live in interesting times

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[-] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I keep hearing about the singularity, I've read up on it, but I still don't get it. What is it/does it do?

[-] nyanix@dataterm.digital 3 points 2 years ago

Basically it's the concept that AI becomes "sentient", has it's own motives, and ability to learn

[-] Wilshire@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

TL;DR: It's an expansion on Moore's law that theorizes that science, especially AI, will continue to advance itself in a exponential feedback loop. It's also been called The Law of Accelerating Returns, by Ray Kurzweil. His estimate was sentient AI by mid 2020's and singularity around mid 2040's.

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