2020: Deus Ex Machina
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The technological singulairty has already happened with the launch of GPT-3 on 11th June 2020 passing the Turing test. We've been living post-Singularity for the past five years. Welcome to the future! DCN
The author claims that GPT-3's launch in 2020 marked the technological singularity, but the comments express skepticism about this assertion, highlighting the need for a more nuanced discussion about AI's capabilities.
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81tch51ay3r
3 months ago
1 replyIs the singularity completely and exclusively conditional on a device passing the Turing test, or is it possible that more is required?
dragonwriter
3 months ago
The Kurzweil singularity vision (which is what popularized the term), as I recall, was of a particularly effective merger between human and machine intelligence as an effective interactive whole (with a resulting feedback loop rapidly increasing the machine side of the capacity so that it predominated in thaggregateat); a machine passing any form of the Turing test is neither necessary, nor sufficient, nor even particularly relevant to that.
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