It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what preparations are necessary ...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Although some thinkers use the term “singularity” to refer to any dramatic paradigm shift in the way we think and perceive our reality, in most conversations The Singularity refers to the point at ...

As the years pass, technological advancements grow exponentially. Since the 1960s, computer speeds have doubled every year-and-a-half to two years. This rapid technological progress, though many ...

Fellow contributor Andrew Nusca just posted a fascinating piece on how IBM scientists built the biggest artificial brain of all time-- now as smart as a house cat -- using a supercomputer powered by ...

1:08-1:12 The unknown performance of the Dwave System quantum computer. Adiabiatic quantum computers are more like the large hadron collider than a classical computer. 1:13-1:17 Why would someone ...

And lo, on the evening of February 14th in the year 2011 A.D., mankind will send forth its most uselessly capacitive minds in a last stand against the rise of its own ruthlessly intelligent machines..

Classical computers (like the one you may be reading this on) calculate using bits, or binary digits, which can have only one of two values, either 1 or 0. Quantum computers, however, calculate using ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1958, a Texas Instruments engineer named Jack Kilby cast a pattern onto the surface of an ...

Will machines one day take over the world? Yes. In fact, they already have. I don't mean auto-trading computers on Wall Street, unmanned weapons systems, Deep Blue and the World Wide Web. I mean us.

Super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful than previously thought before they can beat today's ordinary PCs, ...