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High frequency trading algorithms are creating market patterns humans can barely follow. As they get even faster, the market may be under their control more often than it's under ours.
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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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We're entering a massive transition period during which certain jobs will disappear forever. We have to start thinking about what will replace them and how.
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Don't worry about most white collar office jobs being replaced by machines. At least not yet...
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Far from keeping analyses of potential cyber attacks on critical infrastructure nodes, pundits are hyperventilating.
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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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According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.