What will happen after the technological singularity?

The emergence of an artificial superintelligence would bring us greater inventive and problem-solving skills than humans are capable of. This might lead to the creation of a new ‘species,’ one which might not necessarily have human interests at its heart.

Will quantum computing disrupt?

Quantum computing is expected to impact all industries, but have the most significant and immediate influence in finance, robotics, materials science, and healthcare industries. Near term applications can result in new services and partners; however, mid-term applications may completely transform business models.

What will happen in the singularity?

According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a “runaway reaction” of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an “explosion” in intelligence and …

Can quantum computers perform calculations that are impossible on conventional computers?

An experiment proposed by MIT researchers, which relies on beam splitters, would exploit the strange behavior of quantum particles to perform calculations that are hopelessly time consuming on conventional computers. Quantum computers are computers that exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales.

Is the singularity theory relevant to AI?

It is interesting to notice, that none of the popular proponents of the singularity theory is a specialist in AI. Only Kurzweil (see picture on left) used to work in AI some decades ago when he worked on optical character recognition and natural language processing using neural nets and hidden Markov models.

Is it possible to use quantum effects to perform calculations?

A new experiment would use quantum effects to perform otherwise intractable calculations, but conducting it should be easier than building a quantum computer. A beam splitter is a device, like the one depicted here, that bifurcates a beam of light.