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Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
Beefless meat enters the mainstream.
Tax megacorps like Amazon to fund universal basic income, says 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
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Learn how to present your idea to impact investors.
When it comes to raising superintelligent A.I., kindness may be our best bet.
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The plan to stop megacorps from owning superintelligence is already underway.
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Musican. Actor. Fashion Icon. Internet Visionary?
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The famed science fiction author coined the term "cyberspace" before it existed.
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When he first became a multi-millionaire, Elon Musk shared how his vision led to success.
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The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.
Upload your mind? Here's a reality check on the Singularity.
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.
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Human values evolve. So how will we raise virtuous A.I.s?
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Depending on the answer, one of the famous unsolved Millennium problems could have major implications in our lives.
A tool that can slowly build a better world.
What if consciousness isn't all about the brain?
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A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.
As costs go down and the benefits become more clear, can we afford not to eat lab-grown meat?
The greatest space program spinoff? Human collaboration.
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Future vacationing could be pretty different.
Why do we celebrate Halloween, and what have pumpkins got to do with it?
Many of our greatest fears stem from uncertainty about the future, and technology has made the future very uncertain indeed.
Sure, some expert-level knowledge is needed if you want to program artificial intelligence. But AI expert Ben Goertzel posits that you also need something that Guns N' Roses sang about: a lil' patience.
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AI expert Ben Goertzel is no stranger to building out-of-this-world artificial intelligence, and he wants others to join him in this new and very exciting field.
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Giving human rights to a being with unlimited knowledge? Probably not a good idea.
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Should we be scared of a robot job apocalypse? Not all at once, says Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty.
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A sobering thought to anyone laughing off the thought of robot overlords.
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What is the danger in creating something smarter than you? You can't control it, and pretty soon it could control you.
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