  What would a human hundreds or thousands times more intelligent than the
brightest human ever born be like? We must admit we can hardly guess. A human
being of such intelligence will be so radically different from us that it can
hardly, if at all, be recognized as human. If we had to go back along the
evolutionary tree to identify a creature 1000 times less intelligent than the
average contemporary human, we will have to go really far back. Would it be a
kind of a lizard? An insect perhaps? Considering this, how can we possibly
aspire to have a grasp of something a thousand times more intelligent than us?
When it comes to intelligence, even the very attempt to quantify it is highly
misleading. Now if we attend to a seemingly adjacent question, what would a
machine with such capacity for intelligence be like? Just coming up with an
approximate metaphor requires a huge stretch of the imagination, meaning that
almost anything goes... What would a society of such super intelligent agents,
be they human, machines or an amalgam of both, be like? Well, here we are
transported into the realm of pure speculation. Technological Singularity is
referred to as the event of artificial intelligence surpassing the intelligence
of humans and shortly after augmenting itself far beyond that. It is no wonder
that the mathematical concept of singularity has become the symbol of an event
so disruptive and so far reaching that it is impossible to conceptually or even
metaphorically grasp, much less to predict.
