Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.
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Turns out, insects have basic forms of intelligence and the path to thinking robots may be through emulating how their tiny minds work.
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Researchers are scanning extremely thin slices of human brains to build up the most detailed map of our minds ever created. And that map may have some weird implications.
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While Singularitarians are focused on creating a friendly AI, the first real world artificial intelligence systems are likely to be as unfriendly as possible by design...
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The idea that simulating a brain in a computer will yield an intelligent being has become an unshakeable belief amongst Singularitarians.
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Researchers at IBM seem to believe that simulating the background activity of the brain will create a conscious, self-aware mind.
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Finally, there's a skeptical expert voice addressing the panic about our potential AI overlords.
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UK academics want to know if a sufficiently advanced robot goes on a killing spree should also stand trial for its crimes.
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Let's review the seminal paper which gave rise to the idea that enough computers reading enough data at the right speed will eventually create a super-intelligent entity.
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Its extremely unlikely that Terminator's Skynet, or a system like it, would become a reality. At least not on purpose...