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The Paradox of the Elephant Brain
With three times as many neurons, why doesn’t the elephant brain outperform ours?
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Your Robot Car Should Ignore You
Some research suggests that cars would be safer with no involvement from humans at all.
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Man or Machine?
Three alternatives to measure the human-likeness of a handshake model in a Turing-like test.
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Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI
The long tail and the limits to training.
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Last Words: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning
A look at the importance of Natural Language Processing.
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Gravity Waves and Neutrinos
The later work of Joseph Weber.
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Gravity’s Kiss
The third ripple.
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Feelings: What Are They and How Does the Brain Make Them?
Do animals share our capacity to feel conscious emotions?
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Drawing Physics
How visualizations deepen our understanding.
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The Distracted Mind
Multitasking, task switching, and continuous partial attention.
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The Outer Limits of Reason
A look at paradoxes in language.