The Future
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If machines develop consciousness, or if we manage to give it to them, the human-robot dynamic will forever be different.
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How students apply what they’ve learned is more important than a letter or number grade.
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Some of the world’s top minds weigh in on one of the most divisive questions in tech.
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The COVID-19 disruption is a really an opportunity for collaborating and building stronger relationships.
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How can curriculum planners refresh learning in the wake of COVID-19?
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Researchers are making progress in the effort to develop safe and practical supernumerary robotic limbs.
Join two-time NBA champion Shane Battier live at 1 pm ET this Monday.
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Mathematicians studied 100 billion tweets to help computer algorithms better understand our colloquial digital communication.
The planet that we are searching for is a little bit smaller and closer than we originally thought.
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The institutional barriers that have often held creative teaching back are being knocked down by the coronavirus era.
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Coronavirus has given us the opportunity to reframe and rethink society from its foundation.
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The lessons we’ve learned here on Earth will affect how we govern a new world.
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Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?
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Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.
A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There’s still some ethical concerns.
We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?
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Technology best serves the user when organic development combines necessity with collective values.
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These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.
It’s possible to seek equality without seeking sameness.
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Despite the hype, these technologies aren’t relevant right now. But they could be in the future.
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Job applicants now have to contend with the growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring decisions.
Perhaps sooner than we think, we’ll need to examine the moral standing of intelligent machines.
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If you want to be an innovation powerhouse, then you have to marry purpose with boldness.
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What if consciousness is just a blip in the universe, a momentary flowering of experience that is unique to life in early technological civilizations—but eventually vanishes?
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A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
A review of the multifaceted questions we’ll ask to determine whether robots have a felt quality of experience — an “inner feel.”
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Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That’s one question deep learning can’t answer.
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So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
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For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?