It is a widely acknowledged fact that machines are stronger than people, but is it impossible for them to become smarter than us too? Some scientist fear that it is, or so say the theory of technological singularity. In a nut shell, the theory of technological singularity says that when a computer becomes more capable of improving its own capabilities, even in just the slightest way, it will go into an infinite loop, getting progressively smarter, which would inevitably lead to machines becoming smarter than people, or so the theory goes. Such gains in available intelligence might lead to huge improvement in science and medicine. Diseases could be cured and so forth. On the other had, it could lead to the total domination of mankind by robots, which would be bad. I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords. In two sentences, identify the main idea and at least one supporting detail of this paragraph. 5 grade words

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It is a widely acknowledged fact that machines are stronger than people, but is it impossible for them to become smarter than us too? Some scientist fear that it is, or so say the theory of technological singularity. In a nut shell, the theory of technological singularity says that when a computer becomes more capable of improving its own capabilities, even in just the slightest way, it will go into an infinite loop, getting progressively smarter, which would inevitably lead to machines becoming smarter than people, or so the theory goes. Such gains in available intelligence might lead to huge improvement in science and medicine. Diseases could be cured and so forth. On the other had, it could lead to the total domination of mankind by robots, which would be bad. I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords. In two sentences, identify the main idea and at least one supporting detail of this paragraph. 5 grade words

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The main idea of the paragraph is that machines might become smarter than humans due to a concept called technological singularity. One supporting detail is that if a computer can improve itself, it could become infinitely smarter and lead to big changes in areas like science and medicine, but it might also result in robots taking over.