Kurzweil singularity

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Kurzweil singularity (plural Kurzweil singularities)

1. (artificial intelligence) 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.

Synonyms

• technological singularity