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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...