The countdown is on.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this month, Elon Musk said artificial intelligence will exceed ...

Humanity’s countdown to a technological breaking point now has a startlingly specific number on it: 19 years. One of the world’s most prominent AI futurists argues that by the mid‑2040s, computers ...

A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. This may help ...

We are used to assisting with extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in recent decades, which have evolved from a theoretical research field into a driving force behind technological ...

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, ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will ...