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Artificial Intelligence
Conversational AI agents will have a major advantage over human salespeople.
Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? Philosopher Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds.
Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank highlights an AI-powered pathway towards more productive and more creative teams.
"Ultimately, the choice rests with each individual: whether to take the convenient route of allowing AI to handle our critical thinking, or to preserve this essential cognitive process for ourselves."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Philosopher and author Christopher DiCarlo outlines the key areas where AI continues to reshape the labor landscape.
An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.
“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.
The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That's utter nonsense here.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche's titular character asks in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.
"Personhood" credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?
The integration of artificial intelligence into public health could have revolutionary implications for the global south—if only it can get online.
“We can build AI scientists that are better than we are… these systems can be superhuman,” says the FutureHouse co-founder.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?
Off-the-shelf consumer technology is helping people pursue their interests — and advancing science at the same time.
AI software is rapidly accelerating chip design, potentially leveling up the speed of innovation across the economy.
Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.
In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life.
A crowdsourced "final exam" for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here's how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.