Dear Sirs, I have a question to ask and I am not sure that I am sending it to the right email address. Please correct me if I have made a mistake. From the outset, please forgive my ignorance of this fascinating topic. All sentient creatures have a sense of self, about which all else revolves. Call it "egocentric singularity" or "selfhood" or "identity". The most evolved "ego" that we can perceive is in the human species. As far as I know, we are the only beings in the universe who "know that we do not know." This fundamental "deficiency" is the basis for every desire to acquire things, as well as knowledge. One of the Terminator movies described the movie's computer system as becoming "self-aware". It became territorial and malevolent, similar to a reaction which many human ego's have when faced with fear, threat or when possessed by greed. My question is: AGI, as I perceive your explanation of it, is when a computer gains/develops an ego and begins to consciously plot its own existence and make its own decisions. Do you really believe that such a thing can happen? If so, is this the phenomenon you are calling "singularity"? Thanks for your reply, Al
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