Technological singularity. The technological 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.[1] 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.[2] The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann. Proponents of the singularity typically postulate an "intelligence explosion",[5][6] where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, that might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human.
Basic concepts Superintelligence Non-AI singularity Intelligence explosion Exponential growth Plausibility. Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. Accelerating Future » Future Economy? Danila Medvedev , founder of the Russian Transhumanist Association and pioneer of cryonics in Russia, thinks that our future economy will look like the following: He writes: 1. Development of virtual reality means that “white-collar” work will be moved to virtual workplaces and much of service and operator work will be done using telepresence. 2. Advanced robotics will gradually replace humans in physical labor (first using some telepresence, but later moving to mostly autonomous systems). 3. Artificial intelligence will replace humans in service, operator, manual (through robotics) and creative jobs. 4. As nanotechnology develops, it will replace robotics as a way to produce objects and do other work. 5. Eventually AI and robots will replace ordinary humans in all work.
Will this come true? But I’m not sure why AI, robotics, and nanotech are mutually exclusive… Cryonics: Alcor Life Extension Foundation.