Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. A translation company developed a metric, ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in just a few years, when machines match or exceed human cognitive abilities ...

The Economic Singularity is a term I coined a decade ago to denote the moment when there are no longer any jobs for the vast majority of humans. In mathematics, the word “singularity” means a point ...

Anyone talking about the “singularity” is using a very specific word. It’s not a term for technology getting awesome. It doesn’t mean people can now generate a Totoro manqué faster than the speed of ...

The notion of singularity has fascinated and intrigued for centuries, both for its conceptual richness and its ability to cross disciplines. In physics, it evokes extreme places like black holes, ...