Just before closing out an exciting year, Singularity University (SU) has made yet another announcement -- the acquisition of the Singularity Summit, one of the premier annual conferences on the ...

Michael Annisimov, Accelerating Future, is at the Singularity Summit and indicates that there are over 800 attendees. Ben talks about neural symbolic architecture for cognitive robotics. Ben shows ...

The videos of the Singularity Summit 2009 that was held in New York are up at Vimeo (H/T Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future) A selection of embedded videos are below. How Does Society Identify ...

As the pace of technological change increases, some experts say it will eventually reach a point where machines surpass human intelligence. At that point, known to artificial intelligence proponents ...

AIs will compete with human for jobs, and more often get the job, according to Barney Pell, CEO of natural language search startup Powerset who was speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007. Unlike ...

Already a legend in Silicon Valley, Thiel is ready for the singularity. A fast-moving and very entertaining presenter, Dr. Michael Shermer brought an interesting perspective to the topic of the ...

As computers get more and more powerful, a few wide-eyed enthusiasts are looking forward to the day -- in 2045, they say -- when machine intelligence will surpass that of humans. This event, called ...

SAN FRANCISCO – “We don’t die because the laws of physics require us to die – we die because we’re not currently smart enough not to die ... Why settle for predicting human behavior when we can ...

The final list of speakers has been announced for Singularity Summit 2012, an annual futurist confab that brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on such topics as robotics, regenerative ...