Singularity may not require AGI

Alan Tan
Towards Data Science
10 min readOct 13, 2020

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Singularity, the point where AI can improve itself faster than humans can, had been a topic since the 60s. I.J. Good speculated in 1965 that “an ultra-intelligent machine...that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever”.

James Barrat’s bestseller Our Final Invention brought this topic from academic and nerds to mainstream concerns (or, shall I say fear)?

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Pan-intelligence futurist — Don’t fear AI as in “Artificial Intelligence” in machines; Be fearful of AI as in ‘Absence of Intelligence’ in humans.