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AI is accelerating in terms of speed and capabilities, enabling it to do things only humans COULD DO, meaning convergence (SINGULARITY) is coming.

AI may soon become so smart that it can improve itself. While this might sound like science fiction or something that could happen a decade from now, an experimental project by an OpenAI co-founder ...