What Is The Singularity? | Earth Science

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What is the singularity? Will the computers rise up, should we be afraid? Greg Foot explains. Footnote 1 - https://archive.org/stream/bulletinof64pt3.2oxtomiss/bulletinof64pt3.2oxtomiss_djvu.txt Footnote 2 - http://www.techinsider.io/ray-kurzweil-law-of-accelerating-returns-2015-5 Footnote 3 - https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/08/is-the-singularity-near-or-has-its-time-already-passed.html and http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/waiting-for-the-rapture Footnote 4 - “The Rapture of The Geeks” by Richard Dooling - Chapter six Footnote 5 - http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html Footnote 6 - http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150724-the-problem-with-the-turing-test Footnote 7 - http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR583836.aspx Footnote 8 - http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/297-artificial-intelligence.html Footnote 9 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32334573 Footnote 10 - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/ibms-watson-memorized-the-entire-urban-dictionary-then-his-overlords-had-to-delete-it/267047/ Footnote 11 - http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/the-consciousness-conundrum Footnote 12 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32334573 Footnote 13 - https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730380-400-can-software-suffer-death-and-pain-in-digital-brains/ Footnote 14 - http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-second-of-human-brain-activity-takes-82944-processors and http://www.theguardia

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