{"id":2695,"date":"2025-06-12T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/2025\/06\/12\/the-ideas-of-singularity\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:50:06","slug":"the-ideas-of-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/en\/2025\/06\/12\/the-ideas-of-singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"The ideas of singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2695-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/970_le_idee_della_singularity.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/970_le_idee_della_singularity.mp3\">https:\/\/homo-extensus.ai-book.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/970_le_idee_della_singularity.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\" ><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of the Singularity is not recent: in 1958 Stanislaw Ulam reported discussing with John Van Neumann a &#8220;singularity in the history of the race beyond which the afflictions of human beings, as we know them, cannot continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>A few years later, in 1965, statistician I. J. Good associated the singularity with the advent of superhuman intelligence:<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;An ultra-intelligent machine could design better and better machines; therefore, there would be an &#8220;intelligence explosion,&#8221; and human intelligence would be left far behind. Therefore, the first ultra-intelligent machine will be the last invention that man will need to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>In 1993 Vernor Vinge wrote the essay &#8220;Technological Singularity,&#8221; in which he prophesied the transformation of humans into a new form of superhuman intelligence, superior to Homo Sapiens.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ray Kurzweil, <em>who is considered Singularity&#8217;s principal theorist, <\/em>focuses instead on the exponential acceleration of technology beyond Moore&#8217;s Law (&#8220;The complexity of a microcircuit, as measured, for example, by the number of transistors per chip, doubles every 18 months&#8221;), and thus on the accelerating progress of technology and humanity in the universe.<\/p>\n\n<p>The idea of Singularity also alludes to a process of innovation that when triggered does not lead to the technology being overtaken by others, but to its exponential and potentially infinite expansion.<\/p>\n\n<p>Contrasting Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s thinking is Federico Faggin, the father of the microprocessor, who, for his part, doubts that the singularity can be realized on the technical level and is inspired by a vision that recovers the intrinsic value of man endowed with consciousness and as such difficult to replace with the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the Singularity is not recent: in 1958 Stanislaw Ulam reported discussing with John Van Neumann a &#8220;singularity in the history of the race beyond which the afflictions of human beings, as we know them, cannot continue.&#8221; A few years later, in 1965, statistician I. 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