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Phil and Stephen ask whether current developments make the Singularity more plausible.\n\nThe \u201cFather of Artificial Intelligence\u201d Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away\n\nAt the World Government Summit in Dubai, I spoke with J\xfcrgen Schmidhuber, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at AI company NNAISENSE, Director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, and heralded by some as the \u201cfather of artificial intelligence\u201d to find out.\n\n\xa0\n\nIntel just put a quantum computer on a silicon chip\n\nDutch quantum computing company QuTech, in conjunction with chip-maker Intel, yesterday unveiled a programmable two-qubit quantum computer running on a silicon chip.\n\nThe researchers used a special type of qubit (the quantum version of a classical computer\u2019s bits) called spin qubits to run two different quantum algorithms on a silicon chip.\n\n\xa0\n\nJapanese tour firm offers virtual reality holidays \u2013 with a first-class seat\n\nFasten your seatbelts for a flight departing to Paris \u2013 and never leave the ground.\n\nThat\u2019s exactly what 12 passengers did at First Airlines in central Tokyo this week, where they relaxed in first and business-class seats and were served four-course dinners, before immersing themselves in 360-degree virtual reality (VR) tours of the City of Light\u2019s sights.\n\n\n\nWT 406-719\n\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\n\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License\n\ncreativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/