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Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
CERN scientists achieved record-breaking accuracy in mapping the mass of a key particle in the Standard Model.
Quantum computing brings significant opportunities — but equally significant cybersecurity risks.
In a world of distractions, several remarkable companies show why focus is the ultimate strategy for endurance.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
When AI eats its own product, it gets sick.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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How can ancient philosophical wisdom guide us in ensuring that artificial intelligence enhances human flourishing rather than diminishing it?
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Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
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Eric Siegel has been in the AI field since 1991. He’s “horrified” by the AI hype bubble, but not for the reason you think.
He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he's a peerless visionary.
Like ultra-hardy plants that thrive in harsh conditions, businesses that see crises as opportunities are likely to win in the long run.
Vijay Tella — CEO of enterprise orchestration unicorn Workato — joins Big Think Business for an exploration of our “agentic” future.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
Welcome to the Big Think debut of The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
How has tennis changed in recent decades? The wear and tear on Wimbledon’s Centre Court may tell the tale.
More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.
Today, the Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle physics experiment in history. What would a new, successor collider teach us?
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
Four startup founders explain how to derive lessons from the past while still looking ahead to what’s possible.
The rise and fall of Josh Harris — the genius who anticipated the digital revolution just a little too soon.