Italian and Russian futurists of the early 20th century imagined that technology would remake humanity. Today’s techno-utopians are not so different.
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New theory makes testable predictions.
At a singularity, the laws of physics as we know them suffer a complete breakdown. So such objects really shouldn’t exist.
The AI industry is expending vast resources on growth, fuelled by unrealistic optimism about technology and the future.
Is it possible to ‘align’ AI systems to human interest? A new plan to build an AI system to solve this problem highlights the limits of the idea.
Productivity was meant to be growing faster and faster. It’s growing slower and slower.
A small add-on to existing gravitational wave detectors could reveal what happens to matter as it becomes a black hole, a process like the big bang in reverse.
The scariest beast in the universe has an insatiable appetite and shreds its victims.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists – an Englishman, an American and a German – for breakthroughs in understanding the most mysterious objects in the universe: black holes.
If it’s impossible to accurately predict the future then there may be limits to how smart artificial intelligence can become.
We’re facing an arms race to build an artificial super-intelligence – this could be a disaster without government action.
Prominent thinkers exaggerating the potential or danger of artificial intelligence are pushing us towards a new AI winter.
Pursuing big, unrealistic dreams can distract from real scientific progress. It’s time for AI research to focus on restoring and expanding human control and responsibility.
Feel like visiting another star system or dimension? You can do this by traveling through a spacetime portal of a black hole. But you better choose carefully. All black holes are not created equal.
Who wouldn’t want to travel in time, glimpsing the dinosaurs or peeking at humans 2,000 years from now? Now physicists have designed a time machine that seems deceptively simple.
What does it mean to be a responsible, mature and wise technological being? Our future lies in seeking real answers to this type of question.
New HBO series reimagines a group of life-like robots programmed with hope but marred in violence. They might be more human than we think.
The endeavor assumes that computers could manage billions of billions of cerebral connections. Alas, that’s not happening anytime soon.
Uploading one’s mind to a computer in order to attain digital immortality has long been the fantasy of geeks and billionaires. So what’s stopping us?
We know how to deal with suspicious packages – as carefully as possible! These days, we let robots take the risk. But what if the robots are the risk? Some commentators argue we should be treating AI (artificial…
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