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.
# tech
Don't worry about most white collar office jobs being replaced by machines. At least not yet...
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Artificial General Intelligence, or a synthetic mind, might not be possible to build. But if it were, would we even want to create one?
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As aspiring AI designer picks a very passionate fight with a way of thinking about AI that's been dead for three decades.
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If you're going to be a self-described AI psychologist, you have to understand how AI actually works.
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Does an artificial intelligence need a body to truly become what we could consider intelligent?
# space
We can make our space rovers and probes much smarter than they are today. But we have to get innovative to protect them from alien environments.
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The problem with John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is that its premise is woefully outdated in computer science terms.
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A computer just made a genuine scientific discovery. But it's creators are somewhat overselling it when they imply that it's an entity with a scientific mind.
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Tech evangelists seem really worried about making friends with robots and forgetting that we can always override their programming.
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"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"