The first time a computer beat a human chess champion, doomsayers proclaimed it was the beginning of the end. That was nearly three decades ago, and contrary to those dire predictions, humans haven't ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Justin Gregg's new book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity. When Hal Herzog recommended it to me and I saw ...

The rise of the AI gig workforce has driven an important shift from commodity task execution to first-tier crowd contribution ...

The British mathematician Alan Turing wrote in 1950, "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" His inquiry framed the discussion for decades of artificial intelligence research. For ...

From cyber operations to disinformation, artificial intelligence extends the reach of national security threats that can target individuals and whole societies with precision, speed, and scale. As the ...

Some researchers question whether A.I. can be truly intelligent without a body to interact with and learn from the physical world. Embodied, a start-up based in Pasadena, Calif., has designed what the ...

The good news is it's not just you who feels like everyone is getting dumber. The bad news is… well, everyone is getting dumber. There's actually more bad news — this isn't just one outlier study ...

Will AI need a body to come close to human-like intelligence? But these aren’t just speculative questions anymore. Roboticists today are wrestling with the question of whether artificial intelligence ...

Have you ever heard the expression, “Use it or lose it”? Nowhere does this idiom apply more than to the brain. Sure, the brain isn’t a muscle, but to keep it sharp, it still needs consistent neural ...