Singularities

Cool article posted by the Associeted Press yesterday, Techies Ponder Computers Smarter Than Us. Here's an excerpt:

High-tech entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil raised the profile of the singularity concept in his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," in which he argues that the exponential pace of technological progress makes the emergence of smarter-than-human intelligence the future's only logical outcome.

Kurzweil, director of the Singularity Institute, is so confident in his predictions of the singularity that he has even set a date: 2029.

And, yes, 2029 is a Terminator reference.