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Is the singularity near?
Caleb Ramirez
Daniel Brown
>to about 2015
to about 2007
Nathan Roberts
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.
James Carter
Singularity is circlejerk of sci FICTION lovers.
Isaac Wright
Depends on what your idea of "the singularity" means.
Cameron Ramirez
The singularity has already started.What do you think Veeky Forums, 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.
Justin Morgan
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.
Tyler Hill
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.
Carter Jones
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.
Jayden Nelson
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