Joe Burnett said AI is making intelligence cheap and widely available, reshaping how markets and long-term stores of value ...

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 ...

The 2009 Singularity Summit is coming up this weekend (October 3-4) in New York City. If previous years are any guide, the next week or so will be filled with breathless articles on tech sites and ...

"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 ...

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 ...

This month Elon Musk declared “We have entered the Singularity”. Sam Altman has said “We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started.” Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘Godfather of AI’ says “ 2026 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, ...

Vlad Tenev argues AI will fuel a surge of new jobs, solo companies, and industries, not just cause displacement.

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 ...

Ray Kurzweil’s predictions of the Singularity annoy me sufficiently that I once sat down to write a TechCrunch column attacking them. A brief primer: Singularity theory argues that our exponential ...

*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, ...