English Speech: Artificial intelligence It is the year 2786. The world as we knew it ceases to exist and now lies in chaos and turmoil. It is a world consisting of baron wastelands stripped of all vegetation and life forms. Humanity lies at the brink of extinction. With only a few sti...

The Age of Spiritual Machines presents a history of computers, looking at how past trends in computing have led to today's personal machines. Author Ray Kurzweil then goes beyond history to look towards the future. Most audiences are familiar with the notion that computers will one day thi...

Artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence: A Glimpse into the Future A young teenage girl enters the psychologist's, Eliza's, office apprehensively and sits down upon a chair. The girl begins by saying, "Men are all alike." "In what way?' replies Eliza. "Well they are always trying to ru...

Artificial Intelligence: A Glimpse into the Future A young teenage girl enters the psychologist's, Eliza's, office apprehensively and sits down upon a chair. The girl begins by saying, "Men are all alike." "In what way?' replies Eliza. "Well they are always trying to run things in one way or another...

Artificial Intelligence and Singularity Within the next thirty to fifty years, there will be technological means on earth which can create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after this occurrence, humans will no longer be needed to run the world and therefore the human era will be extinct. The ques...