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?

Bill McKibben isn't worried that the Technological Singularity will never happen. He's worried it will usher in an era of fascist ubermensch who will destroy humanity as we know it.

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...

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.

We interrupt our normal update to bring you a message from the post-Singularity future.

Recruiters and employers are now snooping through candidates' social media because they can. That open them to potential liability and have far-reaching affects across social platforms.

Advocates of the supposedly incoming Technological Singularity have been long on talk but short on detail and seem to see no reason to reverse this trend.

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.

Before we build practical quantum computers, we need to learn how to read quantum states. One idea may be to make the circuits bigger. Much bigger. At least on a nano scale that is...

Oil is a finite resource, and if it runs out before we're ready, it will be a massive economic disaster, as a NatGeo doomsday scenario shows in grim detail.

Defense contractors are trying to turn the internet into an arena for state-sponsored espionage of dubious efficacy and legality.

Small, simple robots are making amazing leaps and bounds in evolving behavior similar to that of living things. But why? And how?

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.