I don't think we need to worry about AI using the neural net processing power of a cockroach anytime soon. However startrek translators would be useful, but they can start wars like "skynet" in the terminator by having us call each other assholes when we mean to say hello! Your AI personal servant who answers calls and takes care of personal business will revolt and spread your vices online. It even looks and acts like you online and is your avatar in games, virtual worlds and video calls, it could start acting like an asshole and go on an insane rampage, if a new class of virus should infect it!
When will the singularity occur? According to new research, humanity may achieve singularity within just 7 years—much sooner than we originally thought.
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By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner.
A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. This may help quantify the speed toward singularity.
An AI that can translate speech as well as a human could change society.
In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. The tricky thing about AI singularity (and why it borrows terminology from black hole physics) is that it’s enormously difficult to predict where it begins and nearly impossible to know what’s beyond this technological “event horizon.”
However, some AI researchers are on the hunt for signs of reaching singularity measured by AI progress approaching the skills and ability comparable to a human. One such metric, defined by Translated, a Rome-based translation company, is an AI’s ability to translate speech at the accuracy of a human. Language is one of the most difficult AI challenges, but a computer that could close that gap could theoretically show signs of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
“That’s because language is the most natural thing for humans,” Translated CEO Marco Trombetti said at a conference in Orlando, Florida, in December. “Nonetheless, the data Translated collected clearly shows that machines are not that far from closing the gap.”
The company tracked its AI’s performance from 2014 to 2022 using a metric called “Time to Edit,” or TTE, which calculates the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. Over that 8-year period and analyzing over 2 billion post-edits, Translated’s AI showed a slow, but undeniable improvement as it slowly closed the gap toward human-level translation quality.
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'Tis winter tho and some extra light in the coop would help but we're getting plenty with extra to sell to pay for the feed and we get a lot for free from local farmers etc. Filled 5 200L drums with a mix of wheat and oats from the local gov't research outfit. Seed cleaning plant gives the wife all the samples when they run out of room. She just takes empty feed bags to town and fills up 10 or more and the guys there load it for her and her daughter unloads it here. 
