What is the Singularity?

What is the Singularity?

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And will it lead to the extermination of all humans?

The term has different definitions depending on whom you ask, and it often overlaps with ideas like transhumanism. But the broad idea is that the rate of technological progress is accelerating exponentially, and will continue to do so, to the point where it escapes all efforts at control. The projected results vary: the extermination of the human species by godlike artificial intelligences is a favourite of the pessimists. Optimists, meanwhile, prefer to conjure up an age of limitless material abundance and infinite leisure, with genetically modified humans bound together by brain implants into a solar-system spanning hivemind, or perhaps uploading their minds into a silicon utopia. And because of the power of exponential growth—where every doubling creates as much progress as all previous doublings combined—this science-fiction future is actually mere decades away.

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Singularity begins with a three-song voyage through a realm that’s recognizable from Immunity epic “Open Eye Signal,” one where much of the rhythm occurs in negative space. For a techno producer, Hopkins has a counterintuitive way of treating sound as something huge and immobile, then scything crop circles into those heavy frequencies to create a sense of motion. His beats are blanks, and his tracks feel unbound from the metronome. “Emerald Rush” climbs a ladder of Laraaji-like arpeggios and mountainous chord changes to some hidden summit of consciousness. The track features additional drum programming by Clark, another tailor of the fabric of spacetime—something Hopkins turns inside out at the drop on “Neon Pattern Drum.”

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Hopkins’ upcoming fifth album, Singularity, may be inspired by his hippie-dippy journeys in Southern California, but that doesn’t mean he’s gotten starry-eyed and dewy. The album‘s centerpiece, “Everything Connected,” is an imposing 10-minute techno odyssey, and as close as the genre has gotten to a blockbuster moment. The sounds he works with on “Everything Connected” are colossal: These canyon-wide synth lines, thunderous drums, and galloping bass aren’t made for moving bodies, they’re made for parting oceans and shaking foundations. If any sort of natural mysticism has infected his music, it’s evident in the sheer scope of his noises. With “Everything Connected,” Hopkins imagines what happens when the whole world becomes a dancefloor.

Reaping The Riches Of The Coming Singularity

There was a time when enterprises introduced technology as an afterthought into operations. However, the last two decades have seen technology morph into a formidable force equipped to assist companies with IT operations and turbocharge the way entire enterprises are run. In fact, we are now seeing an exponential increase in the levels of disruption where enterprises are unable to adopt new tech into their core business offerings.

I believe this development confirms what experts have been predicting. Namely, the coming of singularity. And by singularity, I don’t mean a definite point when the world will be transformed far more by machine-based intelligence than it is now -- I mean singularity as a continuous process of exponential change driven by the unprecedented growth of technology. This trend calls for a more iterative approach to business, and I see it promising companies across domains several previously unforeseen opportunities.

If you look around, you will find several examples of enterprises leveraging this trend by introducing hitherto unheard-of capabilities. Take, for example, the AI-based personal assistants from Apple and Amazon -- Siri and Alexa. Both are equipped to carry out a range of tasks in response to voice commands that can be applied to several front-, middle- and back-office functions. Similarly, narrow-scoped AI is being adopted by various other companies, including other tech giants like Facebook and Google, to monitor customer interfaces -- with a continuity inconceivable for a human workforce -- to help customize products in real time and enhance the customer experience.

Elsewhere, advances in machine learning technologies have created deep neural learning networks that decipher, translate and respond to linguistic cues iteratively. In the financial sector, this has led to the emergence of chatbots. Essentially, automated chat systems, which run on AI, serve as bots that stand in for humans by quickly learning and adapting to a user’s emotional cues and responding to expressed current requirements faster and more effectively than them.

The success of such bots in financial services has encouraged banks to step up its AI-adoption. Bank of America, for example, has officially begun putting Erica, its virtual assistant, to use. The AI-empowered assistant will provide tailor-made financial suggestions over mobile phones to provide advice on the go to customers with an aim to help improve their financial overview.