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Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
They could also "turn off" their fear.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
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.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
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.
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.
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.