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Artificial Intelligence
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
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Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.
Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
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Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
The U.S. military once used Google’s tech without their employees knowing. Anna Butrico explains the complicated history behind “Project Maven.”
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
UAP are no laughing matter anymore.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
John Templeton Foundation
Who should be compensated?
From gamification to VR, here are 10 ways to make learning fun and engaging.
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Do aliens dream about meeting us, too?
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
A new technique for analyzing networks can tell who wields soft power.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it's not about the bots.
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.