Kurzweil singularity

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Kurzweil singularity

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From Kurzweil + singularity, after the futurist Ray Kurzweil, who used the term singularity in his works to describe this event.

noun Kurzweil singularities

The point, resulting from ever-accelerating technological progress, when a sufficient threshold of self-evolving artificial intelligence is reached to result in a superintelligence beyond human conception.
Similar: technological singularity

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@misc{kurzweil_singularity_2026,
  title = {Kurzweil singularity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kurzweil%20singularity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}