Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has made a compelling statement suggesting that humanity may be nearing the “singularity”—a critical juncture where artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence ...

The caustic mathematician Roger Casals Gutiérrez saw on his kitchen wall in 2023. Caustics are a type of singularity, a mathematical phenomenon that occurs when an surface goes through a transition.

The notion of singularity has fascinated and intrigued for centuries, both for its conceptual richness and its ability to cross disciplines. In physics, it evokes extreme places like black holes, ...

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, ...

Close observers of the AI development community may have noticed a particular idea discussed within the field that goes beyond workflow automation and data analytics into something much more esoteric: ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in just a few years, when machines match or exceed human cognitive abilities ...

The Economic Singularity is a term I coined a decade ago to denote the moment when there are no longer any jobs for the vast majority of humans. In mathematics, the word “singularity” means a point ...