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Singularity - Artificial intelligence at its apex

-Abbhirami

Science was born when people began to observe, think and comprehend. Decades back there were two sects of people those who had immense faith in science and did not believe in existence of God. The other who solely believed God and were skeptical in matters related to science and technologies.

Leonardo da Vinci was the believer in science. He is revered for his ingenuity and inventions in the field of sciences. It is said he was the very first to design plans for humanoid robots.

His works stands as a proof as human at some point or the other wanted to design machines that does work quiet similar to the humans. His works has created and served as platforms for others to think and innovate. This was the beginning.
The advancement of technologies is not surprising to many of us nowadays. The advancements have become a routine. Every day we hear about new innovations made in the field of science and technology. Virtual thoughts and dreams have started to step into the earth as real physical ones.

Our dependencies on machines are ever increasing. Of course they reduce the human efforts. This ever increasing human crave on consuming technologies has created a global impact. We have started to depend so much on them.

Artificial Intelligence is the talk of this era. Lots and lots of new innovations and inventions are indefatigably designed to create the model. Super intelligence is the new term that has currently replaced artificial intelligence. This is a field that structures the machines in super designed way that makes it the ultimate.
Some also fear that this period will be more dangerous than nukes (nuclear weapons).
Tremendous efforts are pumped in across many part of the world in structuring humanoid robots which can do all most everything that a human can do. Currently the top 3 positions are bagged by Asimo, HPR-4 and NAO, which are the humanoid robots.

Humanoid robots are robots that do work quite similar to a man. It walks, talks, teaches, sings, at times dances, responds to the instructions and much more. Scientists are taking more efforts to bring in emotions into machines. Things that were unimaginable, are stepping into real world in this era. Artificial Neural Networks increases the possibilities of bringing emotions into robots. Bringing in emotions is not just their ultimate goal. If filling machines with emotions is possible, there is also a possibility of finding out the future.

Someday or the other there is a belief that technology somehow will surpass the human intelligence. This phenomenon is called as Singularity - the rise and emergence of machines, overpowering the human race. This term was first used by the mathematician named John Von Neumann, who foretold about the future about 50 years back. It can happen within next 30 - 40 years or less. There is this possibility because as it is said before, the human consumption and innovation will always be rocketing up until a saturation point is met. That point will have machines ratio more than that of humans.
  As we have seen in many sci-fi movies the “Time Machine” might someday jump from fictional to factual world. When Sixth sense technology is coupled with the robotics then that is it. Machines will not be machines any more. Game over.