Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable? (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Computers Are Not an Isolated Example of Expedential Growth
Many predictions about inevitability and computation come from just assuming that every couple f years, computers were double in size. But folks sometimes forget that growth is not a function of math. There are specific reasons why things were improving so quickly and also why they eventually dropped off. As the cost of computing power gets cheaper for the consumer, the cost fulfil more's law gets more expensive. This is where we get to technological singularity, as the torm came to be defined in vonoving's 19 93 essay,. And this is essentially when the torm became popular and synonymous with the superintelligent machine that rapidly made itself smaller.
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