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Artificial Intelligence
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Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.
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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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
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Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
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Who should be compensated?
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
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.
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.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
According to author and entrepreneur Steven Kotler, at some point this century, we will confront the prospect of immortality.
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