Techies Ponder Computers Smarter Than Us

September 9, 2007 By MARCUS WOHLSEN, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- At the center of a black hole there lies a point called a singularity where the laws of physics no longer make sense. In a similar way, according to futurists gathered Saturday for a weekend conference, information technology is hurtling toward a point where machines will become smarter than their makers. If that happens, it will alter what it means to be human in ways almost impossible to conceive, they say.

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