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Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.

The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.

Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.

In a state of “hyperwar,” accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.

It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.

Living is about staying busy.

Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.

Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.

Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.

To hallucinate means you must first perceive.

Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.

But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.

The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.

Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.

AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.

Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.

Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.

AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.

NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.

Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.