Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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.
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.
5mins
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.
3mins
Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
war technology
The U.S. military once used Google’s tech without their employees knowing. Anna Butrico explains the complicated history behind “Project Maven.”
A vintage illustration of a person's head in profile, with diagrams of astronomical and conceptual systems overlaying the brain to evoke themes of consciousness, set against a yellow background.
8mins
Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
ai physics
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
chess cheating
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
A horned, fanged figure lies on the ground with a foot pressing down on its neck; red drapery is visible above.
6mins
Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
John Templeton Foundation
training and development programs
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.
species-level brain
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Blissful ignorance can be a rational choice.
upload brain
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.
transhumanism
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.