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The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence (ASI) will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

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What is the concept of the technological singularity?

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Is it possible to manage the evolution of super-intelligent AI?

Post singularity AI will surpass human intelligence. The evolution of AI can take any direction, some of which may not be preferable for humans. Is it possible to manage the evolution of super-intelligent AI? If yes, how? One way I can think of is…
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Is the advent of a technological singularity a solution to the Fermi Paradox?

It is really all in the title. For those less familiar, the Fermi Paradox broadly speaking asks the question "where is everybody". There's an equation with a lot of difficult to estimate parameters, which broadly speaking come down to this…
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Can an AI create another better AI, which in turn creates another better AI, and so on?

I have no specific knowledge of the AI field, but I heard that AI systems get better the longer they learn. So, I was wondering: could it be possible that AIs will learn how to create better AIs (Or assists humans to create a better AI), and then…