The Future

The plan to stop megacorps from owning superintelligence is already underway.

Musican. Actor. Fashion Icon. Internet Visionary?

The famed science fiction author coined the term “cyberspace” before it existed.

When he first became a multi-millionaire, Elon Musk shared how his vision led to success.

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.

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.

Human values evolve. So how will we raise virtuous A.I.s?

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?

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.

Future vacationing could be pretty different.

Why do we celebrate Halloween, and what have pumpkins got to do with it?

What is it, do we have any, and why does it matter?

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.

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.

Giving human rights to a being with unlimited knowledge? Probably not a good idea.

Should we be scared of a robot job apocalypse? Not all at once, says Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty.

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

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.

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.

Once a lucrative exercise anyone could do, bitcoin mining has grown out of control, and governments are weighing what to do.

Complex problems undermine the very principle of meritocracy: the idea that the ‘best person’ should be hired. There is no best person.

The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.

Everybody seems to be making money on bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, but not many people grasp how the underlying technology works. Bitcoin is now traded on the exchanges for futures contracts. Is this problematic for amateur day traders that may not understand how bitcoin works?