Ray Kurzweil has left a mark on our lives. The 76-year-old computer scientist, author, inventor and futurist is responsible for advances in technologies we take for granted: optical character ...

The singularity is not here yet, but it will arrive very soon. The economic impact of the singularity may be devastating unless governments and central banks do something about it. Nothing is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The singularity,” the moment where AI is no longer under human control, is less than a decade away—according to one AI expert.

Many jokes are being cracked about the prediction of doomsday Saturday, in which the “Rapture” is supposedly coming tomorrow, heralding the end of days. From the CNN story: By now, you’ve probably ...

Elon Musk recently posted that we are on the edge of "the singularity"—a moment when artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence in a way that fundamentally transforms civilization. Ray ...

Elon Musk recently posted that we are on the edge of "the singularity"—a moment when artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence in a way that fundamentally transforms civilization. Ray ...

Can we do away with the troublesome singularity at the heart of black holes? A new paper in JCAP reimagines these extreme objects in light of current knowledge. “Hic sunt leones,” remarks Stefano ...

Close observers of the AI development community may have noticed a particular idea discussed within the field that goes beyond workflow automation and data analytics into something much more esoteric: ...