Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.

A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.

Supercomputers may be able to perform calculations at the speed of light, and maybe slightly faster if we're feeling adventurous, according to a pair of studies.

Famed physicist Roger Penrose and an Arizona doctor are claiming that our brains are quantum computer in a white paper that will surely be seized by the woo faithful as proof of "quantum consciousness."

For nearly than half a century, the consensus on what makes a machine intelligent has eluded the computer science field, and it's not getting any easier with more time and new technology.

Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.

In another major step for brain-machine interfaces, a stroke victim can speak using a computer with amazing accuracy.

While Singularitarians are focused on creating a friendly AI, the first real world artificial intelligence systems are likely to be as unfriendly as possible by design...

Before you let IBM sell you a computer to help lead your company, consider the downsides of outsourcing your strategy to a machine learning algorithm.

Two IBM project leaders are arguing about the results of the Blue Matter experiments. The critics seem to have the upper hand, scientifically speaking.

Researchers at IBM seem to believe that simulating the background activity of the brain will create a conscious, self-aware mind.

Computers might be able to record your every aspect of your life, but do you really want them to?

Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.

Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.