Scientists predicted a singularity on Nov 13, 2026. They were right.

Описание: Will the world end on Friday, November 13th, 2026? That date may be a bit too specific, but it really was a scientific prediction about when hyperbolic growth would lead to a singularity (if somewhat tongue-in-cheek). In this video, we explore how and why AI could restore history’s trend of ever-faster production, what an AI-powered industrial explosion might look like, and the dangers of a “software-only singularity,” where AI could take off without any new hardware at all.

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The Industrial Explosion (Forethought)
https://www.forethought.org/research/...

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (von Foerster, Mora, and Amiot)
https://ee.stanford.edu/~acfs/vonFoer...

1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled (Scott Alexander)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22...

AI Futures Model
https://www.aifuturesmodel.com/

Who is using AI to code?
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.11...

Claude Opus 4.6 introduction
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude...

GPT-5.3-Codex introduction
https://openai.com/index/introducing-...

AlphaChip
https://deepmind.google/blog/how-alph...

Reevaluating AlphaChip
https://doi.org/10.1145/3676845

Interviews with AI researchers about automated research
https://www.forethought.org/research/...

Historic cost of wars
https://online.norwich.edu/online/abo...

Software-only singularity
https://www.forethought.org/research/...

Epoch’s software-only singularity analysis
https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/the...

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