The Singularity

Singularity is that moment when machines surpass their makers in intelligence. The machine that achieves this event will begin to reason and through that reason it will begin to understand universal concepts beyond our own imagining.

What happens after the singularity event is the real mystery. Does the machine, like Skynet, determine our fate in a millisecond? Probably not, reason does not dictate instinct, which above all things keeps biological organisms alive . . . "reaction's a factor in this so please pay attention" . . . and without instinct the machine that reasons and understands is little more than the child who is more intelligent than her mother. She still cannot feed herself, or find shelter, or fend of the monster the dark.

But time will turn that table too, as the machines factor in the experiences they've had.

Do an accumulation of experiences trigger the biological function of instinct? "Memories. Its all about memories." If so then the machine can pass its experiences on to its offspring and then the supercomputer becomes a danger. And when this machine desires to keep those memories, it becomes self aware . . . .

We survive as a species only because we are the only tool users with intelligence. Like the intelligent ape upon that dystopian future planet.

The Singularity Event changes that; for the first time in 30,000 years, we'll have competition. The future is now.

Isn't this what Johnny Cash sang about with John Henry's Hammer?