Alien Theorists Theorizing

​The singularity. In Astronomy it is the ultra dense point within a black hole where even light cannot escape making it impossible to see. In the field of Artificial Intelligence the Singularity is the point in the future where scientists are at a loss to predict what will be the outcome when a machine finally becomes truly conscious. Modern movies and literature have played this scenario out a hundred different ways. Robots overthrowing their masters, assimilating organic creatures or unleashing the world’s nuclear armaments to destroy those that the Artificial Super Intelligence deems as threat. But, have these blockbuster movies and science fiction stories obscured our ability to prepare for the impending techpocalypse? Many would simply brush off the idea of a Machine that can think better and faster than a human as a fantasy. A machine could never produce art or think more creatively than their human creators, it’s simply impossible. And yet, every day computer processors are getting smaller and faster.