The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
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One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what’s possible with AI in the next 25 years.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
And is anyone protecting children’s data?
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.
Topologists can’t tell donuts from coffee mugs, but their maps are revelatory nonetheless.
Years of shoddy research have overstated the risk.
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
“The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived.”
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing’s test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”
“You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today.”
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?
9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
It’s a very human behavior—arguably one of the fundamentals that makes us us.
In an age of high quit rates, struggling low-wage employees, and tone-deaf leadership, the call for “good jobs” makes great sense.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
As the skills gap grows, learning and development can help ensure the viability of an organization’s talent well into the future.