Status Updates From The Singularity Is Nearer: ...

Exponentially improving information technology is a rising tide that lifts all the boats of the human condition. And we are now about to enter the period when this tide surges upward as never before. The key to this is artificial intelligence, which is now allowing us to turn many kinds of linearly advancing tech into exponential information technology—from agriculture and medicine to manufacturing and land use.

“What you should take away from all this is that even wildly altering our assumptions does not change the essential message of the forecast: computers will be able to simulate human brains in all the ways we might care about within the next two decades or so.”

“These are the most exciting and momentous years in all of history. We cannot say with confidence what life will be like after the Singularity. But by understanding and anticipating the transitions leading up to it, we can help ensure that humanity’s final approach will be safe and successful.”