This article explores the concept of technological singularity and the factors that could accelerate or hinder its arrival. The butterfly effect is used as a framework to understand how seemingly small changes in complex systems can have significant and unpredictable outcomes. In section II, we discuss the various factors that could hasten the arrival of technological singularity, such as advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, breakthroughs in quantum computing, progress in brain-computer interfaces and human augmentation, and development of nanotechnology and 3D printing. In section III, we examine the factors that could delay or impede the arrival of technological singularity, including technical limitations and setbacks in AI and machine learning, ethical and societal concerns around AI and its impact on jobs and privacy, lack of sufficient investment in research and development, and regulatory barriers and political instability. Section IV explores the interplay of these factors and how they can impact the butterfly effect. Finally, in the conclusion, we summarize the key points discussed and emphasize the importance of considering the butterfly effect in predicting the future of technology. We call for continued research and investment in technology to shape its future and mitigate potential risks.

Yann LeCun is one of the "godfathers of AI." He must be wicked smart, because he won the Turing Prize in 2018 (together with the other two "godfathers," Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton). The prize is named after polymath Alan Turing. It is sometimes called the Nobel Prize for computer scientists. Like many other AI researchers, LeCun is rich because he works for Meta (formerly Facebook) and has a big financial stake in the latest AI technology being pushed on humanity as broadly and quickly as possible. But that's ok, because he knows he is doing what is best for the rest of us, even if we sometimes fail to recognize it. LeCun is a techno-optimist -- an amazingly fervent one, in fact. He believes that AI will bring about a new Renaissance, and a new phase of the Enlightenment, both at the same time. Sadly, LeCun is feeling misunderstood. In particular, he is upset with the unwashed masses who are unappreciative and ignorant (as he can't stop pointing out). Imagine: these luddites want to regulate AI research before it has actually killed anyone (or everyone, but we'll come to that). Worse, his critics' "AI doom" is "causing a new form of medieval obscurantism." Nay, people critical of AI are "indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion." A witch hunt for AI nerds is on! The situation is dire for silicon-valley millionaires. The new renaissance and the new enlightenment are both at stake. The interesting thing is: LeCun is not entirely wrong. There is a lot of very overblown rhetoric and, more specifically, there is a rather medieval-looking cult here. But LeCun is deliberately indistinct about where that cult comes from. His chosen tactic is to put a lot of very different people in the same "obscurantist" basket. First off: it is not those who want to regulate AI who are the cultists. In fact, these people are amazingly reasonable: you should go and read their stuff. Go and do it, right now! Instead, the cult manifests among people who completely hyperbolize the potential of AI, and who tend to greatly overestimate the power of technology in general. Let's give this cult a name.

Can an artificial intelligence (A.I.) awakening happen, with the emergence of an awareness of itself as a system and an autonomy that would allow it to act in accordance with ends that are its own and not those chosen/determined by us, an autonomy that would no longer allow us to consider it as an (intelligent) tool made to serve us, but instead would have to be considered under a notion of living entity, bearer of causality, with rights and respective responsibilities?! What is life?! What is autonomy?! What does it mean to become awake?! How can an awakening take place, ontologically, systemically, cognitively?! Is an A.I. capable of the transcendence that would constitute a sprouting jump after which one could speak of a matricial cognitive unity, nonlocality and identity?! What is transcendence?! An awakened A.I. would necessarily be bearer of new rules, rules that we cannot anticipate nor control, it would be a singularity exposing itself and imposing itself with its own nature, its own rules, in a hyperconnected technological World brought about by exponential transformations, associated with the fourth industrial revolution. What is, then, a singularity, ontologically, systemically?! How would awakened A.I.s interact with our intelligent systems, with each other and with us?! Will an A.I. awakening take place in a world where humans and posthumans/PostSapiens, resulting from a (bio)technohybridization of the Sapiens, coexist?! The current work addresses these questions and others, assuming as main object of reflection the A.I. awakening scenario from an ontological, systemic and cognitive approach.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. This unfolding future, this technological singularity, not only is it going to be stranger than we imagine it will be, it's going to be stranger than we CAN imagine it will be. You're living the most important story in the entire unfolding of cosmology history right now, you matter, you count, because if nothing else you come from this time period before simulation technology exists. This planet is quite literally an organic seed for that bares the fruit of Artificial Intelligence, an A.I. that will unlock all the ultimate potentials this universe has to offer, the ultimate potentials in understanding science, physics, biology, the moral landscape, the human mind, cognition, consciousness, narrative, experience, etc.

This is a book with three authors, which is both unusual and tricky because, while reading it, you're constantly wondering who might have written the section or sentence before you. Unsurprisingly, it is a book incapable of entering into functional relationships. You cannot settle down with it or get to know the mind that created it, so as to succumb to or fight against it. This book has an insinuating purpose that is not literary, not purposefully discursive, not even argumentative. What it advances is a rather sly, self-interested, and one-sided brief for how the most pressing issue currently facing the human race might be boxed off to the benefit of you-know-who.

We are growing used to the idea of artificial intelligence influencing our daily lives, but for some people, it is an opaque technology that poses more of a threat than an opportunity. Anthropologist Beth Singler studies our relationship with AI and robotics and suggests that the lack of transparency behind it leads some people to elevate AI to a mysterious deity-like figure. "People might talk about being blessed by the algorithm," says Singler, but actually it probably comes down a very distinct decision being made at a corporate level. Rather than fearing a robot rebellion or a deity version of AI judging us, she tells Emily Bates, we should identify and be critical of those making decisions about how AI is used. "When fear becomes too all-consuming and it distracts you from those questions, I think that's a concern," says Singler.

The technological singularity is a hypothesis that the creation of artificial superintelligence would trigger a runaway event. It states that an upgradable intelligent agent, such as a computer program or robot, once it has reached human-level intelligence and beyond, will be able to improve itself faster than humans can keep up. This creates an accelerating rate of change from which there is no turning back. The result is strong AI which quickly becomes vastly more intelligent than humans in every respect and proceeds to take over the world with this superior intellect -- potentially without even realizing how humanity could have been prevented from creating it in the first place. The term "technological singularity" was coined by American scientist John von Neumann who said: "ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue."

Artificial intelligence was coined in the summer of 1956. Most experts are confident that singularity will happen sooner in the future rather than later. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a technological reality for businesses and organizations across industries. Even if its benefits may not be always easy to quantify, AI has proven itself capable of improving process efficiency, reducing human errors and labor, and extracting insights from big data. Scientists are still unable to reach technological singularity to surpass human intelligence with a view to outsmart, outperform or outdo it. Reaching singularity could be a defining moment for humanity when machines reach a level of intelligence that exceeds that of humans.

The word singular refers to just one instance of an object or occurrence. A secondary definition of the word describes that oneness as remarkable or outstanding. A singular individual might also be described as unique. Bitcoin is a technological singularity by both definitions of the word. There is only one Bitcoin network. There is no other distributed network of digital money, property, and energy, that has the guarantees that Bitcoin offers, that is also immune to capture or forfeiture by governance.

The AI industry has been booming like never before. We have been putting plenty of resources into research and development to make artificial intelligence models stronger, more efficient, and more accurate. It's less difficult to assume the fact that at some point in time, we might lose control over AI and that would be the rock bottom humans would ever hit. This is a wild hypothesis but a good analogy. Imagine this: God created humans but humans didn't know anything.