Computer Consciousness and the Singularity

Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and computing are making computers dramatically more powerful. Not only can they beat the world's best chess champions, but they can answer questions as accurately as many of the world's most knowledgeable people. As we reported several years ago, some of the world's best-known technologists argue that this kind of progress will lead to a point, called the Singularity, when progress will be too rapid for humans to manage because computers themselves will have become the world's innovators and will set the pac.....