THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
The singularity has been cancelled.
What we're getting is wall to wall spam generators, optimized for passing the (modified) Turing test and convincing gullible humans that they are "intelligent".
Instead of the singularity, we are getting the spamularity.
Charlie Stross
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2026-02-06 20:43:46 UTC
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2026-02-06 20:43:46 UTCEvent JSON
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