personal
I wrote my first AI program in high school (around 2009-2010). I found a tutorial for writing a genetic algorithm to find a list of number that sum to a value (I think). It was written in C++, I knew only PHP, I didn't know any OOP, so
philosophy
During the last year there have been many articles about the upcoming singularity and what will happen after that. Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking have issued warnings about the impending doom, while others are more optimistic and are hoping that cures for all diseases will be