Reaching the technological singularity: What will happen when machines become smarter than us?
In the not-so-distant future, we could reach the technological singularity – when artificial and human intelligence merges to become one. Published on Jul 23, 2023
Picture a world where machines have long since passed the Turing Test. When people can’t tell the difference between artificial and human intelligence. In this world, will humans become obsolete, like the floppy disk? Or is it a world where artificial and human intelligence merge to usher in the next step of our evolution? That’s the technological singularity, the theoretical time in the future where technological development outpaces our abilities to maintain control over it. For better or worse, it’s undoubtedly something that will result in never seen changes to our world.
When will we reach technological singularity?
Join any discussion about business technology, and it won’t be long before someone mentions artificial intelligence (AI). The amount of digital data in the world has already surpassed our abilities to manage it, a development, which has made clear the need for algorithms to do the job for us.
But algorithms and AI aren’t the same things. They’re not even close. An algorithm is a computer program that parses data from sets too large for human interpretation, whereas true AI is capable of thinking for itself, making its own decisions, and having free will.
True artificial intelligence doesn’t exist. Yet.
Once computers can learn for themselves without being taught and trained with data that we have collected, we can expect profound societal changes on a scale never before seen.
In the not-so-distant future, we could reach the technological singularity – when artificial and human intelligence merges to become one.









