Kurzweil singularity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The point, resulting from ever-accelerating technological progress, when a sufficient threshold of self-evolving artificial intelligence is reached to result in a superintelligence beyond human conception.

Word forms

Kurzweil singularity Kurzweil singularities

Etymology

From Kurzweil + singularity, after the futurist Ray Kurzweil, who used the term singularity in his works to describe this event.

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