11:58 PM
What is the Singularity Clock?
The Singularity Clock is a symbolic representation of humanity's proximity to achieving artificial superintelligence (ASI) - a hypothetical future AI that surpasses all human intelligence. Similar to the Doomsday Clock, our clock uses the analogy of a 12-hour clock, where midnight represents the moment of technological singularity.
Currently set at 11:58 PM, the clock suggests that we are very close to this transformative event. This setting is based on recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including but not limited to:
- Advanced language models capable of human-like text generation
- AI systems demonstrating multimodal learning across text, images, and audio
- Rapid progress in robotics and embodied AI
- Quantum computing advancements potentially accelerating AI capabilities