Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

You know the technological singularity, the theoretical idea of a future moment at which AI starts to upgrade itself so rapidly that everything after that point shifts forever? Well, now a group of Italian AI scientists have come up with a new means of estimating how far away humanity is from reaching that point. And, as Popular Mechanics reports, their calculations indicate that we're not far off. "Language is the most natural thing for humans," Marco Trombetti, CEO of the Italian AI startup Translated, said last year at a conference in Orlando, Florida. Per PopMech, Trombetti and his team basically argue that because language is so natural for humans, and historically so difficult for machines to grasp, the ability of machines to catch up with and even surpass humanity's ability to translate language could be grounds to grant a machine that does so Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) status.