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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The Gospel of the Singularity and its promise of digital immortality is now selling engineering and scientific snake oil and hope to believers.
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With every new generation of consoles and graphics, we get another dire warning about video game violence.
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Step one, live for a while. Step two, something. Step three, something else that should do the trick.
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We're inching closer and closer to armies of killer robots ready to do out bidding. Their code better be up to par.
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Before we explore the universe, robots will have to lead the way. And for them to find the best places to colonize will be to become self-sustaining.
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In the early 20th century, monowheels and spheres were all the rage. So, of course, someone tried to turn them into weapons of war...
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Making robots compete for survival like living things shows us how some complex behaviors like altruism and parasitism might have evolved.
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Let's review the seminal paper which gave rise to the idea that enough computers reading enough data at the right speed will eventually create a super-intelligent entity.
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Ray Kurzweil's idea that one day, he will live on as software is beginning to take on the trappings of a faith.
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Its extremely unlikely that Terminator's Skynet, or a system like it, would become a reality. At least not on purpose...