# The Singularity Is a Hypothesis About Greater-Than-Human Intelligence by Satyajit Das > "Techno-optimists believe that progress is near a singularity, the hypothetical moment when machines will reach the point of a greater-than-human intelligence." > **— Satyajit Das**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [What Does Thinking About Thinking Machines Tell Us About Human Beings?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26067) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Satyajit Das; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Singularity|Singularity]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] - [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Infrastructural Superintelligence|Infrastructural Superintelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Techno-optimists believe that progress is near a singularity, the hypothetical moment when machines will reach the point of a greater-than-human intelligence." — Satyajit Das, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-satyajit-das-singularity-hypothesis-greater-human-intelligence ```