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A Singularitarian group wants to make you immortal using nothing more than all your secrets and keepsakes...
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Are computer scientists, ordinarily classified as engineers, in such high demand in traditional scientific fields that we'd want to reclassify them?
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Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.
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Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...
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Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?
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Is it possible to simulate and compute our way to solving the mysteries of the universe and actually get it right in the end?
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Defining artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, both philosophically and mathematically. So it's little wonder some people interested in AI want to take some shortcuts...
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Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.
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A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.
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Supercomputers may be able to perform calculations at the speed of light, and maybe slightly faster if we're feeling adventurous, according to a pair of studies.