Advances in robotics present singular worry The Japan Times

"Singularity" is an odd word. Then 20th-century physicists got hold of it and situated it at the very boundary of space-time, to the eternal bafflement of the lay mind. A singularity became the inexplicable, infinitely charged nothing out of which the universe grew following the Big Bang. A new "singularity" now looms -- the moment, fast approaching, when our machines surpass us in intelligence. Conservative futurists -- an oxymoron if ever there was one -- see it coming around 2045.