“The change is so small that every single day you don’t perceive it, but when you see progress … across 10 years, that is ...

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

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, ...

You’ve probably been told that the singularity is coming. It is that long-awaited point in time — likely, a point in our very near future — when advances in artificial intelligence lead to the ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil speaking in New Delhi in 2012 (Photo by Kaushik Roy/The India Today Group via Getty Images) In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become ...

It's been called "the rapture of the nerds." For some computer experts, the Singularity is the moment when an artificial intelligence learns how to improve itself in an exponential "intelligence ...

Since homo sapiens first emerged, humanity has enjoyed an unbeaten 300,000–year run as the most intelligent creatures on the planet. However, thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Almost everyone has heard the story of the Big Bang. But if you ask anyone, from a layperson to a cosmologist, to finish the following sentence, "In the beginning, there was..." you'll get a slew of ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil wants to live long enough to witness the singularity. How? Popping 200 pills a day, for starters. Kurzweil’s notion of a singularity is taken from cosmology, in which it ...