If you’ve spent any time on Facebook recently, then you may well have seen a glimpse of the future of the internet: rows and ...
BIG Technology is emerging now and ramping this decade. Early innovators and adopters will win. Those who invest in the winners will also win. Late adopters will lose badly. Just as those who were ...
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AI insiders and outsiders are both feeling helpless about the same thing.
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 ...
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 ...
The concept of Singularity is popular for futurists and for science fiction writers. However, it is very vague. It is an intelligence or technology “explosion”. What does that mean? We don’t know. How ...
The gap between where we are and where we need to be for any sort of technology 'singularity' to occur is huge -- and the measures futurologists point to don't actually seem to address the problem.