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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Over the past few weeks, I traveled through Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, experiencing firsthand the energy and transformation ...

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.

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 ...

I always thought "the singularity" was a wonderful sci-fi concept to explore, but hardly a likely outcome, let alone inevitable. I mean, in physics we really try to avoid or resolve singularities, ...

Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda. “The ...

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 rows of AI generated posts depicting one-legged army veterans or crying ...

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.