"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Contents Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The ...

Humanity’s countdown to a technological breaking point now has a startlingly specific number on it: 19 years. One of the world’s most prominent AI futurists argues that by the mid‑2040s, computers ...

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, ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

Elon Musk recently posted that we are on the edge of "the singularity"—a moment when artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence in a way that fundamentally transforms civilization. Ray ...

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 ...