singularity

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the quality of being strange:

He has been behaving with great singularity.

an event that some people believe will happen in the future when technology becomes much more intelligent than humans:

the singularity The point in time when advances in AI can create machines that are smarter than humans is known as the Singularity.

technological singularity The physicist warned in 2014 that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race, but many of his peers don't expect a technological singularity any time soon.

The complete replacement of people by machines in an imagined dystopian future is often referred to as singularity.