artificial intelligence

Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build superhuman machines, says Harris, but we haven't yet grappled with the problems associated with creating something that may treat us the way...

The code works by a bunch of artificial neurons sending numbers between each other at fast speeds instead of neurotransmitters. The nucleus numbers of the neurons go through cycles, where one cycle takes the nucleus divides it by 7 does a few more operations and then replaces that as the new...

The big picture: We're getting closer to AI doctors A long time ago when they just started using expert systems they tried implementing an AI doctor. The system was better than a doctor for rare diseases but would diagnose a boot like a human and responsed to the data given (which might not be...

AI Won't Be Quite the Revolution You Expect But there are many things that people can do quickly that smart machines cannot. Natural language is beyond deep learning; new situations baffle artificial intelligences, like cows brought up short at a cattle grid. None of these shortcomings is...

"SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating devices that can be implanted in...