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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, ...

Sci-fi depictions of the future would have us thinking of the singularity — when A.I surpasses human intelligence — as either a technological messiah or the apocalypse. Experts in the field hold ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vernor Vinge is one of the first thinkers to popularize a technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer ...

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The term “artificial intelligence” was only just coined about 60 years ago, but today, we have no shortage of experts pondering the future of AI. Chief amongst the topics considered is the ...

Certain stealthy spacetime curiosities might be less hidden than thought, potentially exposing themselves to observers in some curved universes. These oddities, known as singularities, are points in ...