When we talk about the future of artificial intelligence, the imagery usually veers towards either a blindingly bright utopia or a stormy dystopian horizon. But Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, offers a ...

The Singularity is arriving whether we like it or not. We can not only survive it, but make it work for us to produce the benefits that the techno-optimists promise. The term “Singularity” was coined ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California. Futurist Ray Kurzweil likes to make predictions about ...

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 ...

A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. This may help ...

An Italian company has unveiled a novel method of measuring AI progress: analyzing improvements in machine translation. Translated, a provider of translation services, used the approach to predict ...

A modest prediction: We’re entering a period when speculation about an approaching Technological Singularity will exceed its turn-of-the-century, Internet Boom peak. And for that, you can thank (or ...

Elon Musk recently posted that we are on the edge of "the singularity"—a moment when artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence in a way that fundamentally transforms civilization. Ray ...

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 ...