Will exponential technological growth accelerate to infinite speed and create a singularity? According to Vernor Vinge, there are four scenarios: (1) An artificially intelligent computer becomes smarter than any human being; (2) The internet becomes super-intelligent; (3) Portable computing devices enhance the intellgience of humans to a superhuman level; and (4) the human mind is super-improved by biotechnology.
The basic idea is, that if superhuman intellgience is achieved, it can create even higher intelligence, and so on, in an unbounded loop, until "something" happens.
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