The Singularity May Never Be Near

Understand

There is both much optimism and pessimism around artificial intelligence (AI) today.

• The optimists are investing millions of dollars, and even in some cases billions of dollars into AI.
• The pessimists, on the other hand, predict that AI will end many things: jobs, warfare, and even the human race.
• Both the optimists and the pessimists often appeal to the idea of a technological singularity, a point in time where machine intelligence starts to run away, and a new, more intelligent species starts to inhabit the earth.