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How Do You Teach a Car That a Snowman Won’t Walk Across the Road?

And other conundrums of artificial…

Your Brain Probably Is a Computer, Whatever That Means

We’re certainly on to something when we say the…

How Much Can We Afford to Forget, If We Train Machines to Remember?

Civilizations evolve through…

What Are the Values That Drive Decision Making by A.I.?

Self-driving cars don’t drink and medical…

Death Is No Leveler If Some Live Much Longer Than Others

New life-extension technologies will widen…

How 20th-Century Synthetics Altered the Very Fabric of Us All

They have become an evolutionary force…

Imagine If We Didn’t Fear the Machines of Our Own Making

When we pit ourselves against machines, the…

How Employers Have Gamified Work for Maximum Profit

From scoreboards to trackers, games have…

What Frankenstein’s Creature Can Really Tell Us About AI

Mary Shelley foresaw that artificial…

What Silicon Valley Won’t Admit About Technology and Progress

All the great inventions took…