Technological Singularity: Fundamentals and Applications

The technological singularity, also referred to as simply the singularity, is an imagined point in the not-too-distant future at which the rate of technology advancement will become unmanageable and unreversible, bringing about shifts in human society that cannot be predicted. An upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, where each new and more intelligent generation appears more and more rapidly, causing a "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence, according to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, which is I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model. In this model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction."

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Technological Singularity

Chapter 2: Ray Kurzweil

Chapter 3: Artificial General Intelligence

Chapter 4: Superintelligence

Chapter 5: Mind Uploading

Chapter 6: Singularitarianism

Chapter 7: AI Takeover

Chapter 8: Friendly Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 9: Existential Risk from Artificial General Intelligence

Chapter 10: Accelerating Change

(II) Answering the public top questions about technological singularity.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of technological singularity in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of technological singularity' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of technological singularity.