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

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

The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.

Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.

Meet MIT's Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.

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

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

A new tuna robot leads the way to more agile underwater robots and drones.

Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.

Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.

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

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

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

The so-called "court painter of Silicon Valley" was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots. 

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.

A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.

Giving speech to the speechless.

Can electrical stimulation meaningfully substitute for natural touch during a complex task in the real world? We think so.

An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.

The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.

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

Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.

We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.

To hallucinate means you must first perceive.

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

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

It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they're hidden from view.

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

Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.

It is often assumed that AI will become so advanced that the technology will be able to do anything. In reality, there are limits.