Does AI understand what it’s doing when it generates those impressive images or responds to our questions? It might, but only a little…
Tag: <span>Artificial intelligence</span>
People have been worried about automation before, will history repeat itself or is AI a fundamentally different beast?
Have humans been worshipping the wrong Gods throughout our history? Maybe it’s time to start looking towards the future.
Brain-machine interfaces have come a long way in the last decade. Now a group of computer scientists and neuroscientists from the University of San Francisco have taken things a step further. The researchers used two…
The term ‘deepfake’ has only been around a couple of years, but there is a lot of interest—good and bad—in it’s potential. What’s a deepfake? It’s a fake image or video produced using artificial intelligence.…
In 1848, the 25-year-old Phineas Gage was working on a railroad in Vermont, packing explosive powder into a hole with an iron tamper. Unexpectedly, the powder exploded, sending the tamper backwards through Gage’s skull and…
To pass the Turing test, a computer program must convince a human judge that it is a human by answering a series of questions the judge presents. “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent…
It’s getting harder and harder to believe what’s in front of your eyes. A new app called FaceApp can artificially add a smile to your selfie. It can also make you old, young, or convert you to…
Chimpanzees and newborn children show a sense of morality. Infants, for instance, after having been given a small puppet show with a trio of characters, will display a desire to reach for the good puppet more so…
Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.” In 2016, Microsoft gifted to the world a chat bot named Tay. She was designed to mimic the language…