Life in the Singularity
There is a moment in most processes or events where an invisible line is crossed.
Everything before this threshold can be undone, everything after - irrevocable.
Caesar crossing the Rubicon is the most famous historical example.
Many believe when true AI, often referred as “Artificial General Intelligence” emerges that our society will have crossed such a line.
The Singularity is what we in the Tech industries call this moment.
Borrowed from astrophysics, Singularity refers to the core of a Black Hole.
Black Holes are stars with massive gravity that creates an inescapable radius that even light can’t resist.
Once you enter the radius, the Event Horizon it is called, rays of light and everything else in the known Universe are helpless to escape.
You’ve crossed over into the Singularity.
There is a running debate on two matters related to the AI Singularity:
Will we ever cross this line?
When will we cross this line?
I believe we have already crossed beyond the Event Horizon.
This is Life in the …
