We've been fascinated by the idea of machines becoming self aware since decades. Issac Asimov's books made us ponder what it would be like to live in a world consisting of machines which are aware of their consciousness. Movies like terminator showed a future which is controlled by rouge machines bent on erasing human race. Then the Matrix trilogy showed a world were humans were used as batteries for machines and were kept in a simulated reality so that they are living a lie. The recent most movie Transcendence talked about a machine which had the combined intellect of all the people born till date.
A lot of experts in the field of cybernetics talk about singularity. Singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing civilization in an event called the singularity. Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable, unfavorable, or even unfathomable.
We don't know whether this singularity will ever arrive as human brain and behavior is complex and we are not sure whether things like spontaneity, creativity, love etc can be replicated in a machine.
A lot of experts in the field of cybernetics talk about singularity. Singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing civilization in an event called the singularity. Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable, unfavorable, or even unfathomable.
We don't know whether this singularity will ever arrive as human brain and behavior is complex and we are not sure whether things like spontaneity, creativity, love etc can be replicated in a machine.