The Singularity has already happened

[ben_w]

http://www.terrybisson.com/the-singularity/

[jasonlfunk]

As long as you redefine what is meant by “The Singularity”…

[jacknews]

I suspect "you ain't seen nothing yet".

[retrocryptid]

the singularity came shortly after the bears discovered fire.

[Archelaos → retrocryptid]

No, it came before the Big Bang.

[IdiocyInAction]

> Computation is not consciousness. Memory is not intelligence.

Yeah I stopped reading after that bit. I try to follow the new developments in ML somewhat closely and there are some genuinely unprecedented things in there.

[trasz → IdiocyInAction]

Unprecedented? Generation of random, but linguistically correct text was there for decades.

[trasz]

>Since then, the curve has flattened.

I’d question this part.