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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
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Who should be compensated?
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.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Do aliens dream about meeting us, too?
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.
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.
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
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?
Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it's not about the bots.
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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What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned "Frankenstein." But we still grapple with the same questions.
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter's invisibility cloak a reality.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
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The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
“We didn’t build anything face-ish into our network [but] managed to segregate themselves without being given a face-specific nudge.”