The countdown is on.

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, ...

The world is awash in predictions of when the singularity will occur or when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive. Some experts predict it will never happen, while others are marking ...

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Can we do away with the troublesome singularity at the heart of black holes? A new paper in JCAP reimagines these extreme objects in light of current knowledge. “Hic sunt leones,” remarks Stefano ...

The following is an excerpt from The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more and more integrated into society, two divergent narratives have captured the public imagination. On one end of the spectrum, the "AI apocalypse" scenario ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The singularities at the centers of ...

A cartoon of a black hole and a naked singularity. Either of them can be the end product of a gravita tional collapse of matter, depending on initial and other conditions. For a black hole, nothing, ...