An AI that can translate speech as well as a human could change society. However, some AI researchers are on the hunt for ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

The Singularity is arriving whether we like it or not. We can not only survive it, but make it work for us to produce the benefits that the techno-optimists promise. The term “Singularity” was coined ...

Bitcoin is singular. The word singular refers to just one instance of an object or occurrence. A secondary definition of the word describes that oneness as remarkable or outstanding. A singular beauty ...

The famed futurist remains inhumanly optimistic about the world and his own fate—and thinks the singularity is minutes away. Kurzweil had suggested we meet at the public library in Newton, ...

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 ...

In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. The tricky ...