control destiny. Ray Kurzweil, a well-known futurist and author of “How to Create a Mind” and “The Singularity Is Near”, explains the significance of technological advancements and what their relationship with us will be in the future. The singularity that Ray Kurzweil speaks of is when
The Singularity is an event being predicted by many of the world’s top scientists, an event where AI’s (Artificial Intelligences) progress to the point of greater than human intelligence and, through technology, revolutionize society. The Technological Singularity is the moment in time an artificial intelligence progresses to the point that it is more intelligent than humans. Supposedly any events that happen after the Singularity are beyond our ability to predict because they are caused by an intelligence
you that is stuck. As you entered the black hole time would go faster and faster, and if you looked up you would be able to see the entire universe evolving in front of you. But this amazing sight comes at a great cost, as you begin to near the singularity you would feel your body begin to stretch. Eventually your body would be stretched so far by the colossal gravity that you would be ripped apart!
These estimates reinforce the claim that the singularity should be common knowledge because not only is this prediction in the not so distant future, but it is also surrounded by Proctor's natural ignorance in the sense that a large portion of the population is completely unaware that this event is even on the horizon. In addition to the ignorance of the event itself, the singularity could cause implications that have been previously irrelevant, such as whether human-like
love with an artificial intelligence in a near-future Los Angeles, I couldn’t help but be surprised and delighted when Ray Kurzweil’s theories and mindset came shining through the backdrop. This is a smart, moving love story at first glance, and a philosophical contemplation of the undeniable path technology has set upon when delved deeper into. I am going to attempt to parallel certain events and allusions in this movie with the theory of the Singularity that Ray Kurzweil has helped usher into popular
the idea of "the singularity". “The Singularity is a future period, [in] which technological change will be so rapid and its impact so profound that every aspect of human life will be irreversibly transformed.” –Ray Kurzweil. The concept of singularity was borrowed from physics, where it is used to describe the fact that all known laws of physics break down at a black hole (a space-time singularity), and no information can escape its event horizon. The technological singularity represents an intelligence
Stephen J. Hawking by Rachel Finck Stephen Hawking was born in January of 1942 in Oxford, England. He grew up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1962, and Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant and highly productive researcher, and, since 1979, he has held the Lucasian professorship in mathematics at Cambridge, the very chair once held by Isaac Newton. Although still relatively young, Hawking is already
also formed when two stars have a stellar collision to form bigger black holes (“Black Holes – NASA”). A star, about three times the size of the sun, cannot collapse due to the effects of gravity (“Black Holes – NASA”). When the star is collapsing it nears the event horizon where time slows down (“Black Holes – NASA”). When the star finally reaches the event horizon time stops and the star cannot collapse anymore (“Black Holes – NASA”). Occasionally black holes can be formed when an existing black hole
theorised that this will happen when we create “True AI” basically when a computer becomes able to learn and adapt like a human by itself. It’s not uncommon to hear tech news sights reporting on how the singularity is just years away. To me this seems incredibly sensationalist, we are still nowhere near having computers reason as humans do. People frequently point to AI’s such as clever bot and igod, these programs are imitations whose conversations fall apart after a few sentences and even an AI possessed
matter would collapse into an infinitely dense state known as a singularity. At the center of the black hole lies the singularity, where matter is crushed to infinite density, the pull of gravity is infinitely strong, and space-time has infinite curvature. Here it is no longer meaningful to speak of space and time, much less space-time. Jumbled up at the singularity, space and time as we know them cease to exist. At the singularity, the laws of physics break down, including Einstein’s Theory of
we have that is continuously growing. According to the Big Bang Theory the universe appeared as a singularity. Singularities are thought to exist at the core of black holes. These zones of infinite density are called "singularities." Our universe is thought to have begun extremely small, infinitely hot, and infinitely dense. As time went on this tiny singularity began to expand. While the singularity began to expand it also cooled, going from very small and very hot, to the size and temperature of
remain. The core then rushes inward while the mantle explodes outward, creating neutron stars in the form of rapidly rotating pulsars. Imploding stars overwhelmed by gravity form black holes, where the core hits infinite density and becomes a singularity (some estimate it at 10^94 times the density of water). John Michell and Pierre de Laplace, in 1783, showed that when the escape speed from the surface of a body equals the speed of light, Newtonian theory breaks down. According to general relativity
the key to life’s greatest enigmas. Popularized by H.G. Wells’ 1895 story The Time Machine, time travel has been a popular concept for science fiction literature, but can traveling through hyperspace actually be feasible method of traveling in the near future. “Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility … [to] go off in a rocket and return before you set off,” professed by the world renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Throughout centuries of research many scientist, mathematicians
areas of Mathematics. The Morse theory of critical points arose at approximately the beginning of the twentiet... ... middle of paper ... ...such abrupt changes in a system’s behavior is that we usually observe a dynamical system when it’s at or near its steady-state, or equilibrium, position (Casti, 1996, p. 116). When critical points are non-degenerate, Morse’s Theorem applies (Casti, 1996, p. 108). There are a number of classical applications of Morse theory, including counting geodesics on
When I was growing up there were things in life that always seemed to fascinate me. Most of them were usually science based. Things like elements on the periodic table, where did the stars come from and what lies at the end of the universe? I think the one question that always had my attention was what is a black hole. I can remember asking my parents when I was at about the age of eight or nine what a black hole was, and what was its purpose. Like most people, not really knowing themselves what
Imagine a scenario in the near future where auto-driving cars are a common sight. People are familiar with machines making decision for them. Nobody questions the effectiveness of these machines. One day, a car is driving its occupant down a windy road, all of a sudden a child runs into the street. The car must now make a decision based on the instructions given to it upon creation. Does the car swerve and crash to miss the child, killing the passenger? Or does it kill the child to save the passenger
A legitimate point of science or are they just science fiction? While originally dismissed as a fanatical concept instead of legitimate celestial body black holes despite being elusive and very difficult to observe have been proven in recent years opening the theoretical possibilities wide open for these shadowy entities. Objects of extreme density and with a gravitational force so strong even light cannot escape from their pull they instill both a sense of awe and fear of the unknown. What exactly
black hole, in astronomy, celestial object of such extremely intense gravity that it attracts everything near it and in some instances prevents everything, including light, from escaping. The term was first used in reference to a star in the last phases of gravitational collapse (the final stage in the life history of certain stars; see stellar evolution), by the American physicist John A. Wheeler. Gravitational collapse begins when a star has depleted its steady sources of nuclear energy and can
thing was the eye of the blackbird.” The blackbird in this section symbolizes nature with the words, “only moving thing.” This simple phrase highlights the continuity of nature, how even in a seemingly timeless setting, the blackbird is still a singularity representing the abstract of time.The center of the poem shifts from the blackbird to the mountains which erodes from the original binary of light versus dark. Instead, Stevens draws us to the binary of nature versus culture. Indicating how nature
with a certain mass undergoes total gravitational collapse. For a star with mass greater than M, gravity squashes the star to such an extent that, in theory, its density becomes infinite and its volume is zero. This state of matter is called a “singularity” and is inaccessible to the laws of physics as we understand them, in other words it breaks the laws of physics. For a Black Hole to form the solar mass of the star has to be 3 times heavier than the Sun. The gravitational field surrounding a Black