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The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction.
They actually compare "The Singularity" that they're talking about to the basis of the term, the singularity that (theoretically) exists at the center of a black hole. Then they go on and on without saying:
The Singularity is the point at which the rate of technological advancement becomes functionally infinite.
See? Like the gravity in the black hole.
Generally, it is the point where all available mass is dedicated to that advancement, and is reached well after humans have become non-physical beings. That superhuman AI exist is a precondition of that.
The first sentence *could* be taken to mean this, that it is a thing created by a superhuman intelligence, but the second sentence seems to negate that interpretation.
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