OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that we have reached the singularity, an inflection point at which humankind can no longer keep up with how quickly artificial intelligence improves itself. And he’s not the only tech mogul who thinks so. Just a few weeks before Altman, Elon Musk said in an X post that the singularity had arrived, while Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claimed that humanity was standing at the “foothills of the singularity” in May. These claims have awoken a chorus of skeptics, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who recently dismissed discourse around the singularity and AI gaining consciousness as speculative and “made up.”AI ‘advancing unusually fast’
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