Seth Rogen Is Developing a Comedy Series about the Singularity Theory

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have found success in TV with their AMC series Preacher, which was one hell of a wild ride of insanity. They’ve got another project in the works that sounds like it has promise. 

It’s a comedy series being developed for FX and it’s a series that revolves around the singularity. Rogen briefly talked about the pilot he was working on while he was a guest on the Nerdist podcast. He told them:

“We have a pilot for FX that we’re gonna shoot that we’re working on right now. We’re working on the script right now and we’re going to film that in the next year basically.”

The project might be called The Singularity, and it didn’t sound like Rogen was sure if the project was officially announced or not. Since I've never heard about it until now, I'd say it hasn't been officially announced. When Chris Hardwick asked if it was, Rogen said:

“I don’t know if it is, I think it is? I don’t know if it is… It’s about Singularity” 

He went on to offer this bit of additional information:

“It’s about artificial intelligence, it’s a half-hour comedy about the singularity basically. And I won’t say anything else because I honestly don’t know if it’s [been announced].”

For those of you not familiar with what the singularity is, it’s a hypothesis that was pursued by futurist Ray Kurzweil. Here’s an explanation of it thanks to Wiki:

According to this hypothesis, an upgradable intelligent agent (such as a computer running software-based artificial general intelligence) would enter a ‘runaway reaction’ of self-improvement cycles, with each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an intelligence explosion and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that would, qualitatively, far surpass all human intelligence. Science fiction author Vernor Vinge said … that this would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity to occur around 2045 whereas Vinge predicts some time before 2030.

When the conversation on the podcast moved into this kind of technology, Rogen said: 

“Oh, it happening, it super scary and we’re trying to make a comedy about it.”

Rogen is a pretty funny dude. He’s a solid writer who knows comedy, so if anyone can effectively turn this subject into a comedy series it’s him. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of it! For more information on the singularity, watch the video below:

"Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity" is a brilliant animation short by Lew Keilar and was a 2012 Happy Endings FilmFest finalist. This is a whiteboard animation explaining, in three minutes, the Technological Singularity concept made famous by Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. Illustrated, shot, edited and co-written by Lew Keilar.

Via: /film

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