Rise of the machines: From AI to AGI to the uncharted realm of Superintelligence

Superintelligence, which sounds like something a superhero would have, has become quite a buzzword ever since AI entered the mainstream. With every niche and top company now racing to be the “Big Daddy” of the space, it’s worth looking back at how something that lived mostly in the imagination in the 1950s has come close to becoming a reality.

The beginnings of an idea

During the 1940s and 1950s, English computer scientist Alan Turing’s work on computation and the “imitation game” laid the conceptual groundwork for machines that could…