Technology

What language AIs make up for in efficiency they lack in humanity.

One question for Nita Farahany, a philosopher at Duke University.

The ubiquitous AI assistants are gathering huge amounts of data on them.

A look at Elon Musk’s predicament at Twitter, and how AI might help.

Ocean conservation science is experiencing a data explosion—but can we utilize it properly?

Today’s brain-computer interfaces perform medical miracles. Beyond the clinic is another story.

Neuroscientists can now explore the “wild west” in our heads in incredible detail—a boon to medicine and understanding what makes us tick.

If only the 18th-century hoaxer could see his “Mechanical Turk” now.

One question for Matthew Fisher, a psychologist at Southern Methodist University.

One question for Animesh Garg, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto.

These tiny living robots can now replicate and evolve—and be put to work.

Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

Delphi uses machine learning to tell us right from wrong—and much in between.

An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future.

AI could learn and adapt like humans with algorithms that work like genes.