The Future

Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.

A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There’s still some ethical concerns.

We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?

Technology best serves the user when organic development combines necessity with collective values.

These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.

It’s possible to seek equality without seeking sameness.

Despite the hype, these technologies aren’t relevant right now. But they could be in the future.

Job applicants now have to contend with the growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring decisions.

Perhaps sooner than we think, we’ll need to examine the moral standing of intelligent machines.

If you want to be an innovation powerhouse, then you have to marry purpose with boldness.

What if consciousness is just a blip in the universe, a momentary flowering of experience that is unique to life in early technological civilizations—but eventually vanishes?

A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.

Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?

A review of the multifaceted questions we’ll ask to determine whether robots have a felt quality of experience — an “inner feel.”

Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That’s one question deep learning can’t answer.

So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.

For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?

We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.

The robotics company is allowing select companies to lease the semi-autonomous robot.

Some pesticides are about as toxic as table salt.

The fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution is here. If change is led by the right people, we will have ethical machines, says Intel’s Lama Nachman.

What most people worry about when it comes to artificial intelligence likely comes from science-fiction fantasy.

When it comes to job security in the future, instead of acting “professional” you may want to act more human.

An A.I. named Aristo was able to use its language and logic skills to pass a standardized exam with flying colors.

Yes, the robots are coming — but take a breath.

Machine learning, which actively protects you from all sorts of dangers, including fires, explosions, collapses, crashes, workplace accidents, restaurant E. coli, and crime.

What are the best ideas out there to innovate our rapidly changing education system? The Lumina Foundation has partnered with Big Think to find them.

A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.

MIT and Google researchers use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.

If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?