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Yahoo
31-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 5 Years, Trend Shows
Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. This may help quantify the speed toward singularity. An AI that can translate speech as well as a human could change society. In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of 'singularity' looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. The tricky thing about AI singularity (and why it borrows terminology from black hole physics) is that it's enormously difficult to predict where it begins and nearly impossible to know what's beyond this technological 'event horizon.' However, some AI researchers are on the hunt for signs of reaching singularity measured by AI progress approaching the skills and ability comparable to a human. One such metric, defined by Translated, a Rome-based translation company, is an AI's ability to translate speech at the accuracy of a human. Language is one of the most difficult AI challenges, but a computer that could close that gap could theoretically show signs of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). 'That's because language is the most natural thing for humans,' Translated CEO Marco Trombetti said at a conference in Orlando, Florida, in December 2022. 'Nonetheless, the data Translated collected clearly shows that machines are not that far from closing the gap.' The company tracked its AI's performance from 2014 to 2022 using a metric called 'Time to Edit,' or TTE, which calculates the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. Over that 8-year period and analyzing over 2 billion post-edits, Translated's AI showed a slow, but undeniable improvement as it slowly closed the gap toward human-level translation quality. On average, it takes a human translator roughly one second to edit each word of another human translator, according to Translated. In 2015, it took professional editors approximately 3.5 seconds per word to check a machine-translated (MT) suggestion—today, that number is just 2 seconds. If the trend continues, Translated's AI will be as good as human-produced translation by the end of the decade (or even sooner). 'The change is so small that every single day you don't perceive it, but when you see progress … across 10 years, that is impressive,' Trombetti said on a podcast. 'This is the first time ever that someone in the field of artificial intelligence did a prediction of the speed to singularity.' Although this is a novel approach to quantifying how close humanity is to approaching singularity, this definition of singularity runs into similar problems of identifying AGI more broadly. And while perfecting human speech is certainly a frontier in AI research, the impressive skill doesn't necessarily make a machine intelligent (not to mention how many researchers don't even agree on what 'intelligence' is). Whether these hyper-accurate translators are harbingers of our technological doom or not, that doesn't lessen Translated's AI accomplishment. An AI capable of translating speech as well as a human could very well change society, even if the true 'technological singularity' remains ever elusive. Get the Issue Get the Issue Get the Issue Get the Issue Get the Issue Get the Issue Get the IssueGet the Issue Get the Issue You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
Buzz Feed
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Maura Higgins And Danny Jones' Alleged Kiss Divides Fans Amid Debate On What Counts As Cheating
The Sun recently shared footage of former Love Islander Maura Higgins and ex- McFly member Danny Jones, which they claimed showed a 'drunken kiss' between the pair at this year's Brit Awards. The clip outraged some fans, with one asking 'How could he do this?'. But some people don't think the very blurry, pixelated clip gives a solid enough base for allegations of cheating. Others think the fact that Maura, Danny, and Danny's wife Georgia Horsely still follow one another on Instagram is proof the 'peck' was 'innocent'. We might never know what actually went on (none of the three have spoken about the alleged incident since). But it does raise a question we thought we'd bring to relationship therapist, author at Passionerad, and sexologist Sofie Roos, and matchmaker Susan Trombetti ― what actually counts as cheating? There's more than one type of cheating Trombetti told HuffPost UK: 'There's emotional cheating, physical cheating, and micro cheating.' These are set by the boundaries that exist between the couple, which change from relationship to relationship. 'Micro-cheating' can involve something as small as liking a model's Instagram pictures, Roos says. These 'grey areas' are the ones you should be more vocal about ― 'while most people agree that sleeping with someone else is considered cheating, it's often the small things you think differently about, so those are most important to talk through.' If you're not sure whether something like a peck crosses an unspoken line, Trombetti says: 'Anytime lying and secrets are involved, that's a good indicator there is cheating.' 'The act of intimacy counts as cheating whether it's physical or emotional with the exception of open relationships,' she adds. 'Intimacy can be emotional or physical and that's why emotional affairs can be devastating. It doesn't matter if you are physical or not.' So... was the 'kiss' cheating? The intent behind the action is what matters most, both experts agree. 'Cheating is cheating as established by the boundaries you both have stated... It's called trust,' Trombetti told us. If your partner knows they wouldn't like you to do what they're doing, that's a sign their intent isn't to benefit the relationship. As the matchmaker said, though, we don't know what the rules or intent between Danny Jones and wife Georgia were, or even what really happened between the I'm A Celeb contestants. So unless we hear otherwise from the people involved, we can't call it cheating, even if it's something we wouldn't be happy with.
