The Singularity

I wanted to discuss the idea of the Singularity, specifically technological singularity. The singularity is refereeing to a point in time where a machine or something created by humans begin to start improving themselves without human direct involvement. This is thought of as an “intellectual explosion” where no one can predict what would happen after the fact. Some people think or have reasoned that the singularity will happen in the 21^st century. Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book, “The Singularity is Near” and he predicts that it will happen in the year 2045. My personal opinion on this event is that there is not enough evidence to say we know this will happen at some point in the future or that it is even possible, but of course it is a very interesting possibility. The idea of humans writing lines of code that could then write original lines of code on its own seems very bizarre. To turn this to an artistic point of view, it would be interesting if a bunch of computer scientists and artist got together and tried to come up with how they think this super intelligent machines would create art if they would create any at all. Would they realize the need for art and expression of feeling or would they create purely based on functional needs? It would be a very interesting discussion between very computational thinkers and very artist thinkers. That would actually be a really cool thought project, to come up with an idea or prediction on how the machines would handle the idea of art.