Technological Singularity!

Links

• Singularity-related research links, from Ray Kurzweil
• Singularity Hub | The Future Is Here Today…Robotics, Genetics, AI, Longevity, The Brain

Essays and Articles

Source.

• Wikipedia
• Are We Overthinking the Perils of Artificial Intelligence?
• Facebook Lays Out Its Roadmap for Creating Internet-Connected Drones
• Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet into a Robotic Hivemind | Popular Science
• This Machine Can Learn About the World Just by Watching It
• The Rise of the Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama
• Facebook’s Quest to Build an Artificial Brain Depends on This Guy
• Curiosity And RoboSimian Robot At DARPA
• DARPA's New Biotech Division Wants To Create A Transhuman Future
• Why Robots Won't Rule
• The Next Big Thing You Missed: The Quest to Give Computers the Power of Imagination
• The Machine's Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.
• Open Letter to Eveyone Tricked into Fearing AI
• 10 Futurist Phrases And Terms That Are Complete Bullshit

10 Reasons an Artificial Intelligence Wouldn't Turn Evil

The Coming Technological Singularity - Vernor Vinge

Noam Chomsky on Singularity 1 on 1: The Singularity is Science Fiction!

The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (First Chapter)

Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia

Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future by David Brin

A Critical Discussion of Vinge’s Singularity Concept by Robin Hanson

Is a singularity just around the corner by Robin Hanson

Brief History of Intellectual Discussion of Accelerating Change by John Smart

One Half of a Manifesto by Jaron Lanier—a critique of "cybernetic totalism"

One Half of an Argument—Ray Kurzweil's response to Lanier

A discussion of Kurzweil, Turkel and Lanier by Roger Berkowitz

The Singularity Is Always Near by Kevin Kelly

The Maes-Garreau Point by Kevin Kelly

"The Singularity – A Philosophical Analysis" by David Chalmers

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, By Lev Grossman, time.com, Feb. 10, 2011

Is It Time to Give Up on the Singularity?

Reports and Curiosities

• DeepMind Technologies (AI firm purchased by Google).
• Report on The Stanford Singularity Summit 
• An IEEE report on the Singularity. 
• March 2007 Congressional Report on the SingularityAlternate Link

Fiction and Scripts

• The City of the Living Dead by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt (1930)
• The Last Evolution, by John W. Campbell, Jr (1932)
• The Terminator
• Terminator 2
• Terminator 3 
• Matrix

In the News

• Humans Appear Programmed to Obey Robots, Studies Suggest
• What Is DeepMind? The Artificial Intelligence Firm Bought By Google
• Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual | Singularity Hub
• By Hiring Kurzweil, Google Just Killed the Singularity | MIT Technology Review
• The 'Singularity' is here, but without any emotion
• Does Google Glass Mean The Singularity Is Near?