When Alan Turing asked in 1950, “Can machines think?“, he was not trying to settle a philosophical argument. He was trying to ...

But knowledge gives us power—to separate facts from fears, speculation from reality, and worst-case scenarios from more likely outcomes. And this is my topic for today. What we know about AI, what ...

2020 was a tough time for any movie to be released, so you may have missed this sci-fi flick from 2020 featuring a star from The White Lotus.

The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

IN 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence (AI) to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

History loves to tell us about great minds, but some people weren't just smart - they were living in a different century ...

Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly ...

Can you design a mechanism that will trace out the shape of a heart? How about the shape of a moon, or a star? Mechanism ...

Alan Turing, a pivotal World War II codebreaker, developed the theoretical basis for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Despite his immense contributions, he was prosecuted for his ...

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...