Ray Kurzweil seems to think that DNA is like software code which can be optimized and compressed. He's in for a rude awakening if he tries to treat it that way.

The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.

The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...

Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.

Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?

Machine vision still has a long way to go before it can do something as simple as identify objects at a slight angle.

IBM has big plans for its Watson engine. Question is whether it will live up to the hype.

A Singularitarian group wants to make you immortal using nothing more than all your secrets and keepsakes...

Are computer scientists, ordinarily classified as engineers, in such high demand in traditional scientific fields that we'd want to reclassify them?

Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.

Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...

Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?

Is it possible to simulate and compute our way to solving the mysteries of the universe and actually get it right in the end?

Defining artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, both philosophically and mathematically. So it's little wonder some people interested in AI want to take some shortcuts...