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Artificial Intelligence
Smart glasses have flopped before. AI could finally make them mainstream.
Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.
"We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.
Nestor Maslej, research manager at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), talks us through key findings in the 2024 AI Index Report.
Our “embodied minds” suggest an eventual escape from mortality via computer is unlikely.
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Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
The future belongs to complexity.
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
"By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients."
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question "Is life computable?"
Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect.
We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.
A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.
Profluent’s new platform is like ChatGPT for genetic technology.
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
Finally, an AI that can drive a digital car as a goat.
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven't seen that artist yet.”
Even with the best technology imaginable, you'd probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?
"Stargate" could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.
Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.
Step back from the AI maelstrom and explore Lem’s "Summa Technologiae" for a detached look at technology’s role in human evolution.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.
The technology is not a replacement for human labor — it's a way to complement existing human tasks.