Редактирование: Technological singularity (раздел)

== History ==
As a result of that development, an "intelligence explosion" might follow, as first described in 1964 by [[I.J. Good]]:<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20010527181244/http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Computing/Good-IJ/SCtFUM.html "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine"]</ref>

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Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. It is curious that this point is made so seldom outside of science fiction. It is sometimes worthwhile to take science fiction seriously.
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[[Vernor Vinge]] coined the term 'the singularity' in an article in the January 1983 edition of Omni magazine:<ref>[https://www.singularityweblog.com/when-vernor-vinge-coined-the-technological-singularity/ "When Vernor Vinge Coined the Technological Singularity"]</ref>

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We are at the point of accelerating the evolution of intelligence itself... The evolution of human intelligence took millions of years. We will devise an equivalent advance in a fraction of that time. We will soon create intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the centre of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding. This singularity, I believe, already haunts a number of science-fiction writers. It makes realistic extrapolations to an interstellar future impossible.
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Since 2005, [[Ray Kurzweil]] has been widely credited with popularising the term following his book [[The Singularity is Near]].