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Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
The new documentary “Make People Better” leans toward a different narrative about gene-editing than we've heard before.
"Lethal autonomous weapon" sounds friendlier than "killer robot."
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet."
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Two-thirds of our days are spent alone. The Metaverse will bring us together, argues leading Metaverse thinker Matthew Ball.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
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?
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
The U.S. military once used Google’s tech without their employees knowing. Anna Butrico explains the complicated history behind “Project Maven.”
While most participants fibbed a little bit, laptop users were much more likely to lie – and by a lot more.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.
According to author and entrepreneur Steven Kotler, at some point this century, we will confront the prospect of immortality.
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What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are "landlords" or "publishers."
The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
AI-generated photos, also known as synthetic media, are being used to create fake experts and journalists to spread disinformation.
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
Outrage is a useful emotion that helped our ancient ancestors survive. Today, it leaves us feeling angry, tired, powerless, and miserable.
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
The belief that lying is rampant in the digital age just doesn’t match the data.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
The first (double) episode has come and gone, but here’s what I hope for the series. “We are what we are, and we’re doing the best we can. It is not […]