Category: technological singularity
A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster.
21 Jan, 2023When internet sleuths discovered last week that CNET had quietly published dozens of feature articles generated entirely by artificial intelligence, …
Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology
22 Jun, 2022“We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its …
What’s the Origin of Consciousness? A Global Challenge Is Exploring Leading Theories
6 Jun, 2021How does consciousness work? A frenemy collaboration is duking it out. Six different teams from across the globe are uniting …
The Human Factor: Digital Connectivity Still Needs a Human Touch
27 Nov, 2020We live in an amazing era of technology-driven transformation that’s redefining how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and …
Google’s Quantum Computer Achieves Chemistry Milestone
8 Sep, 2020When researchers at Google announced last fall that they had achieved “quantum superiority”—a point at which a quantum computer can …
A New Brain-Inspired Learning Method for AI Saves Memory and Energy
2 Aug, 2020Despite the frequent analogies, today’s AI operates on very different principles to the human brain. Now researchers have proposed a …
How AI Will Make Drug Discovery Low-Cost, Ultra-Fast, and Personalized
26 Jul, 2020If you had to guess how long it takes for a drug to go from an idea to your pharmacy, …
Cognitive Computing In The Next Decade Of AI
1 Feb, 2020The year 2020 is upon us, and I am hearing across the news that this will be the next big …
How Deep Learning Is Transforming Brain Mapping
1 Jul, 2019Thanks to deep learning, the tricky business of making brain atlases just got a lot easier. Brain maps are all …
5 Coming Breakthroughs in Energy and Transportation
21 May, 2019The energy and transportation industries are being aggressively disrupted by converging exponential technologies. In just five days, the sun provides …
4 Startups Using AI to Solve 4 Totally Different Problems
14 Nov, 2018AI is one of the biggest buzzwords in tech (and in general) these days, and there’s no question AI gets …
Instilling the Best of Human Values in AI
3 Oct, 2018Now that the era of artificial intelligence is unquestionably upon us, it behooves us to think and work harder to …