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Plurality: The End of Singularity?

2020; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-33730-8_8

2522-0993

Alessio Plebe, Pietro Perconti,

Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms

Singularity is a very intriguing future scenario to fantasticate upon, but it is even a quite controversial theoretical issue. Turning back to our previous (Plebe and Perconti 2013) skepticism about the singularity hypothesis, based on an alternative slowdown hypothesis for artificial intelligence (AI), we consider the new possibilities of the so-called AI Renaissance and the opportunities provided by the techniques collected under the name of deep learning in order to suggest a "pluralistic" view on singularity. Plurality refers to the two following AI features: the compositionality of its subdomains and the spreading of intelligence in the social environment. We can suppose a new kind of singularity in the case of intelligence, due to both the emergentist nature of compositionality of subdomains and the "bearer problem," i.e., the detachment between intentional content and its producer in a future scenario characterized by a massive spreading of intelligence in smart devices and the Internet. This kind of singularity for intelligence, however, could lead toward a "broken intelligence," that is, an intelligence without anyone owns or uses it, more than toward the usually supposed "superintelligence."