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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Researchers are scanning extremely thin slices of human brains to build up the most detailed map of our minds ever created. And that map may have some weird implications.
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Far be it from me to offer design advice to giant killer robot builders, but that's exactly what I'm going to do.
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If we want to guide out future and find our places in it, we need to take risks and dream big. Otherwise, we're doomed to decades of mediocrity.
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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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Cyborg technology is making huge strides, but it won't make us superhuman. At least not yet...
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The idea that simulating a brain in a computer will yield an intelligent being has become an unshakeable belief amongst Singularitarians.
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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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Robots are a critical component of space exploration. But they're just that, a component.