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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A lot of popular science writers who don't know how AI is developed are hyping a Skynet scenario. Don't believe them.
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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.
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Another year, another peek under the hood of Weird Things.
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When you start with a deeply flawed premise and advance a deeply flawed argument, you'll come to a deeply flawed conclusion.
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Science bloggers are trying to wedge scientific accuracy into Tron Legacy, a movie which doesn't have any scientific content to speak of.
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Tron Legacy didn't just have countless special effects and a custom soundtrack, it managed to cram in a massive dose of tech utopianism.
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IEEE is not impressed with Ray Kurzweil's cold readings about the future of computing and technology.
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Over the last 60 years, the world has dramatically changed but K-12 education hasn't. Just blaming social media and web connected devices won't help get students more engaged.
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The last thing we need is to try and turn social media into an artificial intelligence.