In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a virtual reality, created ...

A shocking theory that claims our world ended in 2012, and humanity has been living in a simulation ever since, has regained online popularity. The theory was born out of the ancient prophecy ...

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Could you live 54 million lifetimes by spending each minute in a simulated life?

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT's path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and ...