“The change is so small that every single day you don’t perceive it, but when you see progress … across 10 years, that is ...
Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in ...
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 ...
You’ve probably been told that the singularity is coming. It is that long-awaited point in time — likely, a point in our very near future — when advances in artificial intelligence lead to the ...
Check out the Gameplay Trailer for Ashes of the Singularity 2, a base-building strategy simulation game developed by Oxide ...
It seems you can’t open a newspaper without Elon Musk predicting that artificial intelligence (AI) needs regulating – before it starts World War III. And if it’s not Elon, its Vladimir telling us AI ...
Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 ...
Sci-fi depictions of the future would have us thinking of the singularity — when A.I surpasses human intelligence — as either a technological messiah or the apocalypse. Experts in the field hold ...
When Fortnite reached stratospheric popularity early last year, there were undoubtedly an awful lot of VCs on the sidelines looking enviously at the massive platform and wondering what opportunities ...
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and Mark Greaves, the Director of Knowledge Systems at Vulcan, Inc. have an excellent essay in Technology Review pointing out the flaws in the underlying ...
*It's been twenty years. Two long decades. Is any of this speculative stuff actually occurring in our real lives today? Read what Vinge wrote, it's all in the record, and here it is for you below, ...