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Patented: History of Inventions

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The Singularity of Artificial General Intelligence

If we create a true artificial general intelligence that is a superpower, has the ability to understand emotions and come up with novel ideas. It's very hard to know there's this idea of the singularity - I've heard of it but I don't understand it so maybe you could fill us in. If we crack AI and it goes off and it does the work of a million chemists and solves how to create cheap, light, affordable car batteries, vaccines, anything, the pace of change could accelerate even further from what we're seeing now. We can see the benefits, we can see the downfalls. What about the true catastrophises? Those who say actually AI is going to

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