Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.
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Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.
U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.
Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
“Hardcore History” host Dan Carlin recently spoke with Big Think about the history of humanity’s drive to create — and whether or not we can control it.
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a “reality threshold” that is lower than it should be.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.
Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
Temperatures in the Sun’s core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.
In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars.
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.
Can electrical stimulation meaningfully substitute for natural touch during a complex task in the real world? We think so.
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island’s pest population go extinct.
If music is a window onto truth, what does screaming reveal?
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.