The source of many disagreements is that people rely, often implicitly, on two radically different notions of “intelligence." ...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke Consider all of the things that your hand-held cellphone does. It can be a phone, camera, gallery, text, ...

“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn, and that create. Moreover, their ability to ...

How will the rise of artificial intelligence impact the place of race in American politics and culture? Not at all, might be the most obvious answer, but a new play from Definition Theatre in Hyde ...

Leaders split on AGI viability, with Meta skeptical and DeepMind confident, so you can compare aims, methods, and what ...

When most people hear the words “intelligence failure,” they think of a surprise event that an intelligence service failed to predict. But what if that’s all wrong? Are the assumptions surrounding ...

There are many ways to test the intelligence of an artificial intelligence—conversational fluidity, reading comprehension or mind-bendingly difficult physics. But some of the tests that are most ...