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Apple co-founder on artificial intelligence: ‘The future is scary and very...

Steve Wozniak speaks at the Worldwebforum in Zurich on March 10. (Steffen Schmidt/European Pressphoto Agency) The Super Rich Technologists Making Dire Predictions About Artificial Intelligence club...

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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence (Parts 1 and 2)

ORIGINAL: Wait But Why By Tim Urban Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me...

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Is That Really You or Just Your Brain?

ORIGINAL: Daily Reckoning by Stephen Petranek May 1, 2015   Recently, I spent a long weekend with a handful of the smartest people I know, including Juan Enriquez, a biotech venture capitalist and...

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Silicon Valley Then and Now: To Invent the Future, You Must Understand the Past

William Shockley’s employees toast him for his Nobel Prize, 1956. Photo courtesy Computer History Museum. “You can’t really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before.”...

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Scientists Just Invented the Neural Lace

Images via Charles Lieber In the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks, futuristic post-humans install devices on their brains called a “neural lace.” A mesh that grows with your brain, it’s essentially a...

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An executive’s guide to machine learning

An executive’s guide to machine learning It’s no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix. Machine learning is based on...

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It’s No Myth: Robots and Artificial Intelligence Will Erase Jobs in Nearly...

Image Credit: Tupungato/Shutterstock.com With the unemployment rate falling to 5.3 percent, the lowest in seven years, policy makers are heaving a sigh of relief. Indeed, with the technology boom in...

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How Your Brain Is Wired Reveals the Real You

The Human Connectome Project finds surprising correlations between brain architecture and behavior ©iStock.com The brain’s wiring patterns can shed light on a person’s positive and negative traits,...

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DNA Is Multibillion-Year-Old Software

Illustration by Julia Suits, The New Yorker Cartoonist & author of The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions. Nature invented software billions of years before we did. “The origin of life is...

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Allen Institute researchers decode patterns that make our brains human

Each of our human brains is special, carrying distinctive memories and giving rise to our unique thoughts and actions. Most research on the brain focuses on what makes one brain different from another....

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“AI & The Future Of Civilization” A Conversation With Stephen Wolfram

“AI & The Future Of Civilization” A Conversation With Stephen Wolfram [3.1.16] Stephen Wolfram What makes us different from all these things? What makes us different is the particulars of… Read More →

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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the End of Code

EDWARD C. MONAGHAN Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.… Read...

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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step

THE QUEST TO MAKE CODE WORK LIKE BIOLOGY JUST TOOK A BIG STEP |Chef CTO Adam Jacob.CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED IN THE EARLY 1970s, at Silicon Valley’s Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as...

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Where does intelligence come from?

Add caption It is amazing how intelligent we can be. We can construct shelter, find new ways of hunting, and create boats and machines. Our unique intelligence has been responsible for the emergence of...

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A lab founded by a tech billionaire just unveiled a major leap forward in...

This is definitely not a scene from “A Clockwork Orange.” Allen Brain Observatory As the mice watched a computer screen, their glowing neurons pulsed through glass windows in their skulls. Using a...

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AI is the new space race. Here’s what the biggest countries are doing

The United States and China currently dominate the world of artificial intelligence, but used very different approaches to get ther. While the US’s academic system has generated and incubated the...

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