Artificial Intelligence “Singularity Event” Sparks Fear In Russia
According to this report, a “singularity” is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization—and was stunningly exhibited this past week in Perm when a Promobot IR77 containing artificial intelligence saved a young child from being harmed. This lifesaving robot, this report continues, is manufactured in Perm by a company named Promobot that describes their creation as “the first on the market, completely self-contained “live” with a robot character that is designed to work in areas of high concentrations of people in which the robot helps people with navigation, answers any questions, translates promotional materials and remembers everyone with whom had to communicate”. […]