T-Rex: A singularity refers to a future moment when we create artificial intelligences that are smarter than we are. It's called this because things will be so different, it's impossible to predict past it. Everything will change!
T-Rex: For instance: these smart machines could make even smarter machines!
T-Rex: And so on until we have super duper smart machines that will look on us as mere playthings. Will they destroy us? Or will we merge ourselves with technology, and in doing so become a new, more cybernetic lifeform? Our choices seem limited to either becoming something new, or facing irrelevance and obsolescence!
Utahraptor: So why does a super intelligent AI make predictions impossible?
T-Rex: Because too much has changed!
T-Rex: Also because we're too dumb. It'd be like a dog trying to predict what its owner does.
Utahraptor: I think most dogs can do that with some accuracy, T-Rex.
T-Rex: Right. Well - I've never really been one for "apt analogies".
Narrator: T-REX IS TELLING THE TRUTH:
T-Rex: Check it! Eating food in bed is like - a crappy duck?
T-Rex: What the heck, everyone?
