primarily understood in cosmology as emerging from a singularity um if if God and theology is said to be the source of all things in physics we would point to thesingularity as being that actual source and when you apply
singularity um if if God and theology is said to be the source of all things in physics we would point to thesingularity as being that actual source and when you applyrelativity to the amount of compression gravitational compression that happened with SpaceTime at
relativity to the amount of compression gravitational compression that happened with SpaceTime at Singularity uh strange things happen now we're trying to get better models for that state than we currently have but atleast in relativity you see a a a unifying of the four fundamental forces
And one of the more interesting things I've found was a scenario forecasting exercise by the design company IDEA, which we've had some interactions with at Singularity University. And I'm sure you're familiar with them.And they came up with three quite interesting scenarios named after different literary inspirations.
So I'll give you a couple examples of how that comes to play. Singularity University, how many of you guys know Singularity because it's here in the Valley?There you go. Big group.
Mum's bot stops at every traffic signal, and several times, Huw tries to get passersby by to help her, with lines like, "I'm being kidnapped by the bloody Singularity !" Unfortunately, nobody seems interested in lending a hand.And even if they did, Mum goes about 200 kilometers per hour between traffic lights, her gait so fast that every time
And all of you are deeply familiar with ideas like singularity . The singularity that imagine us being not interestingly situated-- no two people sitting exactly next to each other or very few. And sort of dotted about.
there'll be machines that can think and leave us behind. The singularity will happen. I even go through it-- I tried not to embarrass some of my colleagues in the media.
This is happening in all technologies, including biotechnology. At Singularity University, the participants in the summer programs get their genome sequenced. There are maybe devices like this.
The question asks, if you start with a smooth velocity field of water, can it ever concentrate so much that the velocity becomes infinite at some point? That's called a singularity . We don't see that in real life.
But I will say that I do believe that it wasn't a 30, one-third down the line, because America was different. - To the singularity . Oh boy.
And so now-- and here's the other-- We may never-- --other futurism fallacy-- --never will, maybe. --about the singularity at that point.
And that thing is that it's a singularity . It's a singularity , meaning it's an event horizon beyond which we're unable to actually detect what's going to happen. We can't predict how a game will play out when the rules of the game change so drastically that the game itself is changing.
It's a kind of technological singularity . We think of singularity as being the robot apocalypse because that's what has gotten the most attention, but the term has been around for a while. It was borrowed from physics and mathematics.
Now, what are these two things in the middle? One is the singularity . That's a concept you're all familiar with, and so I won't explain it.
"Legion", "For We Are Many" and "All These Worlds" form a trilogy, and they wrap up all the threads pretty well. And then I wrote "Singularity Trap", which is a complete departure. And, once that was out, I re-edited "Outland" because when Audible signed a contract with me for the "Singularity Trap" contract,
You have to find a use for yourself. This was in "Singularity Trap".
But the point of the insulation wasn't-- oh, my god, plastics are taking over the world. They work with Singularity as well.
It's the singularity , and let's just hope they're nice to us.
as the singularity , because we don't know what life is like with a functioning god able to answer our questions.
about the singularity and machines rising up and taking over and of course the main question I get when I speak is
we can avoid the singularity and and make Ray Kur whe wrong that it's going to happen in 2045 and I think that'd be a good goal
This is the Singularity hat.
It was the singularity .
He's at Singularity University.
But we prefer cultured meat. So what is a singularity ? Because I haven't told you yet what is a singularity ?
the X Prize and Singularity University, Peter Diamandis, got together and announced a new company named Human Longevity Inc., which
We've had singularity . We've had the CEO of Whole Foods.
"Who is it?" she calls down the hall. "It's the Singularity ," a booming voice replies. "What do you want?" "Everything is different now!" "I don't want any." "If I could just have a moment of your time?" It takes a lot
And that word "singularity " is a word you’re gonna hear a little bit in this talk.
Including the Singularity University that I just referred to.
And the singularity was, to me it seemed you were using a metaphor in mathematics of course.
What if the singularity doesn't happen.
One thing about the singularity is that it's a scenario.
where the singularity doesn't happen.
You know the singularity stuff, has, by, to some of its critics, it's been mocked as a digital rapture.
It sounds like the singularity is just the marching morons with the numbers reversed.
It's a singularity . It's an animal that reacts, that propels us forward, that's adventurous, but it's not controlled by reason.
graph in Singularity is near uh which I also gave out when I was here in 20
end the singularity this Great Wall at which it's going to be somebody else who's going to take over uh and not be
But I will say that I do believe that it wasn't a 30, one-third down the line, because America was different. and they can no more avoid the singularity then they can avoid time coming their way.
That's why people talk about the singularity . The singularity is this idea that if you can make it to a certain point in human history,
On that point of the singularity , so this is a particular moment in time where we're going to be able to make
a moment some scientists have nicknamed “the singularity .” It’s like if that hypothetical Turing Machine
Now, that analogy-- again, I don't want to say it's scary. But it definitely is a singularity , because that makes us no longer the apes. That's a comparison, where if the machines are Einstein, we're a fly.
And then that was part of my research in thinking about this theoretical point. It's a kind of technological singularity . We think of singularity as being the robot apocalypse because that's what has gotten the most attention, but the term has been around for a while.
And whenever we hear that "a singularity is near," let us always remember the plurality is here.
But Michael assures me he wrote singularity in white at the bottom there.
Just relax and freefall into the singularity .
This also tells us why the singularity is such a bad thing.