Humanity’s countdown to a technological breaking point now has a startlingly specific number on it: 19 years. One of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed ...

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 ...

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. A translation company developed a metric, ...

Artificial intelligence is going to change the world—but there’s still a lot of hype and hot air around it. Understanding what’s fact, what’s fiction and what’s marketing spiel is essential if you ...

In 2015, Waitbutwhy.com had some articles and diagrams explaining how the artificial intelligence revolution of a technological singularity would play out. The diagram above shows how there would be a ...

World-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil says the singularity is coming sooner than expected. Everyone from Elon Musk to the CEO of Google DeepMind has predicted that artificial intelligence will surpass ...

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross explains why the rapid collapse in the cost of AI is doing more than improving software. It is ...

The notion of singularity has fascinated and intrigued for centuries, both for its conceptual richness and its ability to cross disciplines. In physics, it evokes extreme places like black holes, ...