There's nothing to be sorry about. I can see why people would think that. Ray Kurzweil definitely popularized the term; most people (including myself) first heard about the technological singularity from him.

ohh….. srry

If you have AGI why sell anything anymore.

Just take it.

Nobody will be able to stop you.

This sub is both way too optimistic about how soon we'll see this, as well as waaaaay too naive and optimistic about the ethics of literal elder dragons atop mountains of skulls and treasure they've looted from society er I mean tech billionaires.

You don't get into these positions for your praiseworthy ethics ffs, literally have to not have any ethics to get there to begin with. Its a requirement. You burn entire villages in the blink of an eye without a care for who suffers. Pop the champagne!

Most naive community on reddit? Its up there.

John von Neumann was the first person to use the word "singularity" in terms of a technological singularity (and this term itself was coined by Vernor Vinge).

"McAfee made a bet that in three years a single bitcoin (1 BTC) would be worth $500,000". "Bitcoin hasn't hit $500K, so now John McAfee has to eat his own...well, just click"?

I think you might underestimate AGI.

There will be no need to "sell" anything anymore when your AGI can simply take it and there will be nothing anybody can do to stop you.

The first "emperor of earth" will be the CEO of whatever company builds the first AGI.

People who think that these companies will magically grow ethics just because they have invented AGI are dreaming.

the singularity is a term coined by Ray Kurzweil to refer to a date in the future when A.I. will be smarter than humans, and therefor we will not be able to predict what happens past that date because humans will not be in control of the world anymore.

it has nothing to do with quantum mechanics

edit: i was wrong, it wasnt coined by ray kurzweil

>high demand technologies don't eventually become affordable for working and middle class folks.

*if they can be commodified and sold for profit without undermining the privileged social position of the powerful.

I'm not convinced AGI is really like that. If it threatens capitalism itself (as a real AGI certainly does) — a system that's been voraciously defended with the power of the world's most violent militaries and police forces for hundreds of years — then I would not be betting on it being accessible...

The trick is to look at whether having those things is profitable to those in power. For all of those things; they are profitable for power because power commodified them.

AGI isn't. Not in the hands of working class people.

That can only undercut the ability of the powerful to make money off of back-breaking labour of the working class.

Unless the powerful can commodify it, don't expect it to be accessible.

Not really a "win" though just another flavour of loss. And boy are there a lot of flavours to choose from.

Another prediction? Throw it on the heap

How long until they have text-to-voice software doing the reading for them?

Yes

Why would the self driving car be on the ground where people are walking? the future is vtol

It gets more morally questionable if you program it to value certain human lives over others. In your scenario it isn't really making any judgement on the value of human life other than that five or whatever human lives are more valuable than one, which under most circumstances is a no brainer.

Are you willing to let human caused traffic accidents happen? so many people die every year you know

I like that too. And maybe cross reference their investment accounts to see if they have any open short positions against the company. 2 birds 1 stone.

I have an answer to that in the form of a short story (100-word drabble):

Trolley Problem Insurance

Joe rode home with his family, wife in front, and kids playing video games. He had purchased a fully self-automated automobile, capable of errands like picking up curbside groceries.

An angry mob of rioters surrounded the car and pounded on it.

“Everyone brace for impact!” Joe grabbed a handle.

The car self-accelerated, driving through the crowd—bodies flung up top while the car bounced, swerved, and tilted.

Joe’s wife, Mary, said, “Joe, we’re getting in so much trouble!”

“Don’t worry, dear. I went for the supplementary Trolley Problem insurance. Legal protection, medical, and life insurance coverage for these exact situations.”

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Stop I can only get so erect

I find it quite ironic. Computers were conceived as a way to help humans determine objective truth more quickly and easily by modeling the world. But now this ability to simulate - Turing's Imitation Game - is being turned on its head, making it even harder for people to know what is real and what is not real.

I suspect that Turing knew or intuited that it would lead here, but perhaps not many of the other early computing pioneers, who might be shocked to see what massive computation is leading to.

I was thinking in preference of who donated most to the car company.

Unless that 1 person has a higher social credit score than the 11. We need that integrated in to autonomous driving.

Edit: obvious /s response to a question discussed ad nauseam

I think, trying to understand their point of view (the translation company), that they are saying language is the basis for all Human advances.

And by learning all of our language, the AI instantly knows everything Humanity knows.

Imagine if you are a world class doctor, best surgeon in existence. And you also happen to be the world's most effective lawyer. Oh, and also the top philosopher alive. And an absolute genius at war.

That's what an AI becomes by mastering Human language.

Again, I just think that's what their point of view is.