noun
singularity
A hypothetical point when artificial intelligence far surpasses human capabilities.
Some researchers predict a singularity when AI vastly outperforms humans.
Etymology
The AI term borrows the mathematical image of a point where ordinary description fails. It proposes a technological transition beyond which familiar predictions cease to work.
More examples
- Predictions about the singularity depend on how quickly AI improves.
- In this novel, the singularity transforms how people live and work.
- No one knows when, or whether, the singularity will occur.
Forms
singularity · singularities
Similar words
- intelligence explosion
- Describes runaway growth in intelligence rather than a hypothetical threshold.
- superintelligence
- Names intelligence exceeding human abilities, not the turning point itself.