Today, artificial intelligence is fast becoming an ever-present part of our lives. AI chatbots have proliferated alongside other generative AI technologies capable of pumping out synthetic "art," ...
If you’ve spent any time on Facebook recently, then you may well have seen a glimpse of the future of the internet: rows and ...
Elon Musk has said that the site, which allows bots built by humans to post and react to others' posts, signals the "very ...
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 ...
On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...
AI is accelerating computer hardware improvement and software improvement. This was the core of the case for the Technological Singularity. AI is also accelerating the improvement speed of science. AI ...
I have long flirted with the idea that I’m an audiophile, though I don’t typically spend thousands of dollars on either headphones or speakers, and I only sporadically indulge in lossless audio. True ...
Singularity is a mathematical boundary beyond which predictability ceases, and it obviously holds a profound implication. We, as the human race, arguably stand on the cusp—or, perhaps, have already ...
SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, Silicon Valley anticipated the moment when a new technology would come along and change everything. It would unite human and machine, probably for the better but possibly ...
The gap between where we are and where we need to be for any sort of technology 'singularity' to occur is huge -- and the measures futurologists point to don't actually seem to address the problem.