I mean, by singularity you mean that all the usual known laws losetheir meaning and that something sort of explodes, causing the wholeof existence - space and time and the people - to take on a di erentform. at is what you call 'singularity' and you envisage it as a capacityof arti cial intelligence, through which the computational capacity ofMan increases to such an extent, thanks to AI, that what you can thendo in a second, you cannot do now in a whole lifetime'Of course, the chess player also thinks and wonders what the countermoves will be if she does this or that. Of course, she can't foresee allpossible steps - neither can the computer, but it can sequentially makeand calculate them. But what is completely lost from sight is that itis a game, and that it is the joy of the game! A game you have to beable to play correctly, but also to play wrongly. It's not about one sortof perfection ghting with another perfection, because then it doesn'tmake any sense at all. It is all about enjoying the game.'But there could come a time whenthe cloud of information couldspread out over the whole cosmosat a greater speed than light can,and even radiate through the blackholes to outside cosmic areas - thatis to say, areas we cannot know yet.'
