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b'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/'