Is the singularity near?

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No

>>8691806
I don't understand this picture.

Can I get a quick rundown?

>>8691807
Sufficiently advanced technology begets more advenced technology. It's been observed as the exponential growth of computing capabilities from the 80's to about 2015. Singularists argue that there's no upper limit to this sort of growth.

>>8691807
it's a meme ripoff of the original where the blue line gradually nears the black line and the red one rises slightly and then falls

>>8691841
sorry I meant green not blue

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>>8691803
>>8691806
Meant to post this one, lol

>>8691840
>Singularists argue that there's no upper limit to this sort of growth.
A-are they right?

>>8691851
No.

>>8691851
>muh quantum computers

>>8691892
[citation needed]

>>8691840
>to about 2015
to about 2007

>>8691944
Yup. Think about it. What major invention/innovation has there been since the smartphone? None. In 2007 we all thought 2020 would be a world of holograms and paper thin screens. Now we all know it will be just like today but with a couple more 4k tvs.

>>8691803
Singularity is circlejerk of sci FICTION lovers.

>>8691803
Depends on what your idea of "the singularity" means.

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>>8691803
The singularity has already started.What do you think 4chan, reddit, and facebook are ? They are giant meta-brains composed of millions neurons. The internet as a whole has already become an entity akin to higher intelligence organism.

>>8691999
Well CRISPR/Cas9, neural networks, reusable rockets come to mind. Also robots have gone a long way, if you look at what Boston Dynamics is doing.

>>8691999
>>8692034
I was actually addressing the failures of Moore's law to increase CPU performance.

There was basically a straight exponential rocket of performance from the 8086 to the Core 2 Duo, which then dramatically slowed until Sandy Bridge and has now come to a grinding halt.

An i5-2500k is a seven year old processor and is still relevant for modern software. If you were rocking a brand new Pentium 3 on the day the gigahertz barrier fell, a seven year old processor from your point of view would have been a 33mhz 386.

>>8692043
Well I kinda think the Moore's law is business scheme. I have this conspirative theory that Intel could've perfected the processor a lot faster, but they decided to milk it as much as they could.

I think the next step would be to make the processors 3D, as in multilayer, but that would require better heat exchanging materials, and transistors that use less power.

>>8692034
Reusable rockets are exciting but they also basically prove that rocketry didn't advance at all between 1970 and 2010

40 years of space exploration wasted

>>8691803
I would say by about 2040 most jobs will be automated.

20 years after that we *MIGHT* have decent AI.

10 years or so after that things *MIGHT* get very weird interesting.

I say might because we'll probably blow ourselves up or some other shit we'll go down by then, if not then I can see things getting pretty weird and incredible towards the end of the century, but not by 2045.

>>8691803
Another 28 years to go.

>>8691803
Its a total meme spread by a crazy kike scared of death, it would be kinda sad if he wasn't getting rich off his bullshit.

>>8691803
Yes, and it will be awesome.
If you don't think it will be awesome just consider cancer, you could wake up with cancer everyday, your family could wake with cancer.
After the singularity we're not going to need to worry about those things. It'll be worth it.

>>8691803
>>>/x/