Singularity will arrive unnoticed while everyone ranks models, researcher quips
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-27
Former AI researcher Suchenzang offers a wry take: when the singularity happened, everyone impacted was too busy re-establishing a new social order — ranking themselves against each other and against the "computer gods" — to even notice it had arrived. A self-aware jab at the AI community's obsession with leaderboards.
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