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 look inside the secret plot to use porn to... help replace human women with sex bots because reasons?
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Brain-machine interfaces are developing at a rapid pace. But don't expect to order implants on demand anytime soon.
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Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.
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MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.
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Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.
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Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute offers a rebuttal to Weird Things' coverage of the Singularity and its advocates.
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Finally, there's a skeptical expert voice addressing the panic about our potential AI overlords.
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The Singularity Institute has been reading Weird Things and they have some objections...
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UK academics want to know if a sufficiently advanced robot goes on a killing spree should also stand trial for its crimes.
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Would you pay $6,000 for advice from a doctor who claims he could help you live longer by making it up as he goes along?