AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.

The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.

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

What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?

A deep learning AI running on a supercomputer was able to link patterns of brain connectivity to political ideology.

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

No ouija board required.

From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.

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. 

The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.

“We didn’t build anything face-ish into our network [but] managed to segregate themselves without being given a face-specific nudge.”

AI-generated photos, also known as synthetic media, are being used to create fake experts and journalists to spread disinformation.

Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?

Not only that, but AI learns what type of faces we like.

One research group's AI-based drug discovery platform could be redesigned to discover VX nerve agent and 40,000 similar chemical weapons.

The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.

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

Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.

The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.

Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create the stunning map.

A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing's test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.

According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060.

What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?

Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.

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.

What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?

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

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.

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

GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.