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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How accurate are the comparisons between how our brains work and how computers calculate? A trio of researchers decided to find out.
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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?
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The good news is that we found a way to drastically increase storage density for computers. The bad news is that it's not very practical.
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Colleges are trying to figure out who'll actually succeed in a computer science program, and they're starting to find some interesting insights.
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Computer scientist Nick Barnes shows us pretty much everything wrong with colleges' attitudes towards their students and curricula by example...
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Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.
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A disagreement between academic and industrial computer science is threatening to leave students in an educational no-man's land.