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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: artificial intelligence
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History
From Kurzweil + singularity, after the futurist Ray Kurzweil, who used the term singularity in his works to describe this event.
