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 ...

Australian metalcore outfit Northlane have spent a majority of the year touring around the world in support of their latest disc ‘Singularity.’ Loudwire managed to get a few minutes to chat with ...

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 ...

A few decades ago, the most popular science fiction epics were works like Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy or Frank Herbert's Dune series—stories that were set thousands or even tens of thousands of ...

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, ...

Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. Led by futurist Ray Kurzweil, proponents of the so-called strong-AI school believe that a sufficient number of ...

The Singularity is back in the spotlight, thanks to a Time cover story focusing on inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil and his forecast that "the end of human civilization as we know it" will come in about ...