artificial intelligence

A sobering thought to anyone laughing off the thought of robot overlords.

Max Tegmark says we’re smart enough to make it. But are we wise enough?

What is the danger in creating something smarter than you? You can’t control it, and pretty soon it could control you.

Artificial intelligence has the capability to far surpass our intelligence in a relatively short period of time, but we have to lay the right groundwork now while we still can.

The best hiring manager might just be the computer sitting on your desk, says AI expert Joanna Bryson.

At the dawn of the AI era, where decisions made now could affect the future of mankind, regulation over tech giants is needed now more than ever.

The capabilities on this thing are both impressive and worrisome.

A significant hangup on the way to portable artificial intelligence has been the neural synapse, which has been particularly tricky to reproduce in hardware. Until now. 

Nissan is developing technology that controls the car by reading the driver’s brain waves.

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in a short time. So at what point will it be able to emulate the great artists and writers of our time?

UC Berkeley researchers create a robot that learns by playing and can predict the future of its actions.

In ten years, everything could be very different… while on the surface being as recognizable as possible.

AI is leaving human needs and democracy behind in its race to accomplish its current profit-generating goals.

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Artificial Intelligence is already outsmarting us at ’80s computer games by finding ways to beat games that developers didn’t even know were there. Just wait until it figures out how to beat us in ways that matter.

Elon Musk issues a stark warning at the National Governor’s Association meeting.

AI won’t really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.

The World Science Festival just wrapped earlier this month. Here’s 4 top World Science Festival sessions that ORBITER recommends.

An MIT study predicts when artificial intelligence will take over for humans in different occupations.

This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri’s conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.  

There’s a new verb in town: cognify. We have far too much baggage with the word ‘intelligence’ so to fully embrace the second industrial revolution we need to start talking about artificial cognification.

Elon Musk, Sam Harris, Ray Kurzweil and other visionaries discuss AI superintelligence at a recent conference.

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence learns what it takes to win, making human-like choices in competitive situations.

Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers warns about an AI-dominated future world without consciousness at a recent conference on artificial intelligence that also included Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis and others.

We cannot rule out the possibility that a superintelligence will do some very bad things, says AGI expert Ben Goertzel. But we can’t stop the research now – even if we wanted to.

A recent conference on the future of artificial intelligence features visionary debate between Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Nick Bostrom, David Chalmers, Jaan Tallinn and others.

One day this century, a robot of super-human intelligence will offer you the chance to upgrade your mind, says AGI expert Ben Goertzel. Will you take it?

We are on the verge of something meaningful and incredible with emergent artificial intelligence, says Toni Lane Casserly. But which way will humanity steer it? As with any system, it’s up to us.

Descartes’ solitary, inward-facing mindset misconstrues the social nature of our thinking. Social Cartesianism better captures the soul of what matters in distinguishing humans from animals or machines.

Author and robot expert Dr. David Levy explains how marriage with robots will come in the next several decades as technological and societal transformations take place.