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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We keep seeing artificial intelligence do more and more impressive things. But the most impressive thing it can do next is to fit in our hands.
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To combat humanity’s flaws, some pundits are urging us to give AI the power to govern. These ideas are guaranteed to backfire.
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Current economic models and priorities set almost a century ago are obviously failing us today. Can machines help us get back on the right track?
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How can artificial intelligence be so impressive in demos but end up with a shaky real life track record? Is it because we’re hitting the limits of our current machine learning models?
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Pay no attention to the tech personalities double guessing COVID-19 models. They’re not the experts they think they are, or pretend to be.
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Code storage and sharing platform GitHub wants to archive open source software for up to 10,000 years. But is that a good idea, and could we use its momentum to rethink how and why we code?
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Quantum computers are coming. But what exactly are they and what can they do for us?
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Despite constantly using algorithms defined as artificial intelligence and losing millions of jobs to it, we're still not sure where this technology can go and if it's really intelligent.
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Hide your kids, hide your wife, we're automating everybody out there!
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When we talk about regulating artificial intelligence, we need to step back and ask ourselves a very important question. What are we regulating and why?