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View ArticleSilicon Valley Then and Now: To Invent the Future, You Must Understand the Past
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View ArticleIt’s No Myth: Robots and Artificial Intelligence Will Erase Jobs in Nearly...
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View ArticleHow Your Brain Is Wired Reveals the Real You
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View ArticleDNA Is Multibillion-Year-Old Software
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View ArticleAllen 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....
View Article“AI & The Future Of Civilization” A Conversation With Stephen Wolfram
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View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
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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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View ArticleAI 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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