"Jobs where empathy and "emotional intelligence" can be considered requirements, often personal service and "high touch" interactive positions, have by and large been immune to the creeping mechanization of the workplace. And here's the twist: most of these empathy-driven jobs are performed by women." This is a sci-fi bro movie waiting to happen.

"I asked Kristian Hammond what percentage of news would be written by computers in 15 years. “More than 90 percent.”"

brief interview with the creators of the chatbots-arguing video

'"Society of Mind" - the idea that the conscious mind is an emergent process resulting from multiple independent sub-cognitive processes working in parallel'

still on track for human brain simulation in 2020

possible flaw in singularity 'argument'

Computer beats human at Go. Damn machine keeps winning!

long, decent singularity article in the Montreal Gazette

Vinge's original singularity argument

hasten the singularity by playing games