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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"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"
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There's a reason why we can see and understand things robots can't, and that reason might be a cluster of neurons known as V4.
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Watson can easily win a trivia contest, but it needs to play anyway to learn how to talk to humans.
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No, the internet isn't about to gain sentience and become a globe-spanning hivemind.
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The tech industry didn't suddenly start promising disruptive revolutions with every new gadget and app. It's been doing that since its first days.
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The best way to make robots move may be to just let them figure out how to do it.
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Singularitarian arguments for the seeming inevitability of artificial super-intelligent are little more than wild extrapolations of pop sci cliches.
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DARPA wants machines that can look at video and not just see what's in the frame, but understand it.
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Some recent AI papers suggest training robots like you would train intelligent animals. The question is why you would need to do that.
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On the surface, a basic AI handily beat humans in a classification task. But if you look at the details, its victory wasn't exactly a clean one.