The Future

Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people’s trust?

We can “read” genes with ease now, but still can’t say what most of them “mean.” To show why we need clearer “causology” and fitter metaphors, let’s scrutinize cars and their parts like we do bodies and genes.

Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That’s on the horizon thanks to these engineers.

A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.

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

Here’s why coding skills alone won’t save you from job automation.

It’s not just for the lols. If you’re up for some soul-searching, they need you to contribute to this MIT research survey…

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

Bothered by spam and phishing emails? This bot can waste months of a spammer’s time, and produces some hilarious results… and you can use it for free right now. 

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.

Researchers at Human Longevity have developed technology that can generate images of individuals face using only their genetic information. But not all are convinced.

A.I. will bring a series of social and financial changes, and it will force us to confront a problem we’ve been avoiding for much too long, says Joscha Bach.

Some experts take issue with Elon Musk’s frightening warning about AI taking over.

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

The most make-or-break aspect of job automation? How policy makers handle your transition into a new career.

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

Europe’s best and brightest minds converge upon Budapest to solve the problems of today’s Europe. Topics will include AI, the job market, emerging technology, and more. 

AI is short for more than just ‘Artificial Intelligence’. At this crucial stage in its design, we have to decide whether we want it to merely serve us, or to challenge and augment our many selves.

Job automation will need to strike a delicate balance — we want enough to make our lives more comfortable, but no more than that.rn

‘Deep learning’ AI should be able to explain its automated decision-making—but it can’t. And even its creators are lost on where to begin.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett believes AI should never become conscious — and no, it’s not because of the robopocalypse.

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.  

Scientists are conflicted about what causes car sickness, which may make a workaround difficult. 

You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.

If you think we’re talking about someone else, don’t be so hasty. One study highlights how the vast majority of people choose ignorance over knowing. 

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds the world’s largest collection of seeds, for safekeeping.

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.

The driverless car is coming – but what will *you* being doing in your self-driving car? Robotic cars will give rise to a new ridership economy of on-the-go services and experiences.

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.