Singularity: When artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans

Singularity – the point in time when machines achieve human intelligence – will come. Leading South American futurist José Cordeiro is convinced of this, and spoke at our 2015 Future Congress about the capability of machines to develop themselves without human assistance. Taking for granted that the technological singularity occurs: Can machines use this new status to give themselves meaning and purpose? And what role will humans play in this world? Will they optimize their bodies with technology in order to keep up with machines?