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

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more and more integrated into society, two divergent narratives have captured the public imagination. On one end of the spectrum, the "AI apocalypse" scenario ...

Can we do away with the troublesome singularity at the heart of black holes? A new paper in JCAP reimagines these extreme objects in light of current knowledge. “Hic sunt leones,” remarks Stefano ...

For decades, black holes have been the ultimate cosmic cliffhanger: regions of space where gravity wins so completely that even our best theories fall apart at the center. Now a new wave of research ...

OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company, announced itself to the world on December 11, 2015. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Reid ...

Since homo sapiens first emerged, humanity has enjoyed an unbeaten 300,000–year run as the most intelligent creatures on the planet. However, thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

As AI integrates more within our lives, the chance of humanity reaching the condition known as singularity increases. Defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica as the "theoretical condition that could ...