Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The singularity,” the moment where AI is no longer under human control, is less than a decade away—according to one AI expert.

Welcome to a “profound moment for humanity,” according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O’s keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google’s cutting-edge research and ...

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, ...

By one major metric, artificial general intelligence is much closer than you think.

Demis Hassabis, Google's AI chief, shares why society is nearing the AI singularity, highlighting AI's potential at the I/O conference.

Anyone talking about the “singularity” is using a very specific word. It’s not a term for technology getting awesome. It doesn’t mean people can now generate a Totoro manqué faster than the speed of ...

I always thought "the singularity" was a wonderful sci-fi concept to explore, but hardly a likely outcome, let alone inevitable. I mean, in physics we really try to avoid or resolve singularities, ...

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.

Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda. “The ...

'It will be the inflection point where we move into a different regime.' ...

Demis Hassabis and Google DeepMind are pushing aggressively toward an AI-driven future, as concerns grow over Google’s expanding influence and the rapid march toward AGI ...