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

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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, ...

I've mentioned before that I am hooked on audio books. I can't find the time to sit down and read for any length of time, but I can listen to a book while driving or working and that has allowed me to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...