“The change is so small that every single day you don’t perceive it, but when you see progress … across 10 years, that is ...

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, ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in ...

The Singularity is back in the spotlight, thanks to a Time cover story focusing on inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil and his forecast that "the end of human civilization as we know it" will come in about ...

On Monday, I looked at the possibility of artificial intelligence through the perspective of history: the history of the field and of expert conjecture. That analysis revealed that, up until now, ...

Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. Led by futurist Ray Kurzweil, proponents of the so-called strong-AI school believe that a sufficient number of ...

In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Greg Kurtzer from LBNL presents: Singularity: Containers for Science, reproducibility, and HPC. “Explore how Singularity liberates ...

One of the joys of attending a general physics conference like Physics@FOM is that I get to attend the sort of talks that just never seem to turn up in a universe near me. So when I saw that there was ...

Let's face it. Most what we think we know about the Universe may come from science, but most of what we think we know about the future comes from science fiction. So it only makes sense that the New ...