Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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.”
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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.
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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.
night vision
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
futurama
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.
transhumanism
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
sentient AI
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.
google AI
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
mechanical turk
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
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According to author and entrepreneur Steven Kotler, at some point this century, we will confront the prospect of immortality.
John Templeton Foundation
consciousness
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?