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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Famed physicist Roger Penrose and an Arizona doctor are claiming that our brains are quantum computer in a white paper that will surely be seized by the woo faithful as proof of "quantum consciousness."
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For nearly than half a century, the consensus on what makes a machine intelligent has eluded the computer science field, and it's not getting any easier with more time and new technology.
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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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In another major step for brain-machine interfaces, a stroke victim can speak using a computer with amazing accuracy.
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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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Before you let IBM sell you a computer to help lead your company, consider the downsides of outsourcing your strategy to a machine learning algorithm.
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Two IBM project leaders are arguing about the results of the Blue Matter experiments. The critics seem to have the upper hand, scientifically speaking.
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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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Computers might be able to record your every aspect of your life, but do you really want them to?
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Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.