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
The robots who may assist us and take care of our basic needs in the future don't have to be humanoid to be useful. It may even be better if they're not.
# tech
Science fiction writers who really research AI can come away with some great insights.
# astrobiology
SETI is thinking about how to detect and talk to alien computers instead of just alien beings. And that's a lot harder than it sounds.
# tech
A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.
# tech
The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.
# tech
The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.
# tech
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...
# tech
Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.
# tech
Machine vision still has a long way to go before it can do something as simple as identify objects at a slight angle.
# tech
Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.