The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the...
Month: April 2019
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough....
Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues....
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Is there a uniform set of moral laws, and if so, can we teach artificial intelligence those laws to keep...
It isn’t unreasonable to think of drones as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes on traditional notions...
Over seven decades ago in 1941, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story, “Reason” (PDF), in which energy captured from the...
It already seems a little like computers can read our minds; features like Google’s auto-complete, Facebook’s friend suggestions, and the...
