Singularity

A running collecting of books, stories, articles and movies regarding singularity, artificial intelligence (AI) and robots.

What is Singularity?

According to Wikipedia:

Singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies such as artificial intelligence will cause non-human intelligence to exceed human intelligence for the first time in history, causing human civilization to be radically changed or possibly destroyed

Singularity Short Stories

Mana by Marshall Brain - the creator of the old website gem How Stuff Works has a great short story about human life after the robotic revolution.

The Gentle Seduction (1989) Marc Stiegler - A short story of one woman's experiences and transition into singularity. Includes nanotechnology and out of body experiences. Argued to be one of the best science fiction stories regarding nanotechnology.

Singularity Articles

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence (2015) - Wait Wait But Why Blog

The Ethics Of The 'Singularity' (2015) - In this article Alva Noë argues that singularity is an "artifical problem."

Life Extension at Google (2013) - "Work at Google and you could end up living a lot longer than your peers elsewhere..."

Singularity Movies

• Ex Machina (2015)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Autómata (2014)
• Her (2013)
• Wall-E
• I, Robot (2004)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• The Matrix Trilogy
• Terminator
• Short Circuit

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

• robots in movies montage

Other Links

• Also see "The top 50 robots and AI computers in the movies" for a robot specific list

• singularity preppers - so this exists.

• ELI5:Elon Musk has been very clear recently in regard to his fears of quickly developing A.I. What is he afraid of, and what would A.I. "going bad" look like working itself out in today's global economy?