Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
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The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
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Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
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.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
Living is about staying busy.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
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.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
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.
Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.