| Year | Event |
| 1958 | Earliest recorded use of the term “Singularity” by mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in his tribute to John von Neumann (1903-1957) |
| 1993 | First public use of the term “Singularity” by Venor Vinge in an address to NASA entitled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post Human Era” |
| 2005 | Inaugural “Singularity Summit” hosted by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (now MIRI) |
| 2006 | The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil is published. |
| 2009 | Wired for Thought: How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet by Jeffrey Stibel is published. |
| 2012 | MIRI study “How We’re Predicting AI—or Failing To” |
| 2040 | Median value year predicted for Artificial General Intelligence from the 2012 MIRI study. |
References
- https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-5-JeCa2Z7hbWcxTGsyU09HSTg/edit?pli=1
- http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19940022855.pdf
- http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_for_Thought
- https://intelligence.org/files/PredictingAI.pdf