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The heady new SyFy spinoff Caprica offers a glimpse into a near future of human-level AI

Ray Kurzweil has famously suggested that humanity will achieve human-level artificial intelligence (AI) sometime in the next 20 years.

Neuro

A Wireless Interface for Speech Synthesis

Stephen Hawking’s familiar DECtalk DTC01 voice synthesizer recently announced plans to “find another astrophysicist as a backup in...

Robotics

Ever heard of the Boston BigDog? No, it’s not a new gourmet sandwich—it’s “the most advanced quadruped robot on earth,...

Art & Entertainment

For many, work is a daily grind. We procrastinate and avoid doing tasks we’d rather not do, and often find it difficult to get excited about...

Nano

Until the mid-1990s, the term "nanotechnology" referred to the goal of creating vast arrays of nanoscale assemblers to fabricate useful...

Nano

For all the optimism about humanity‘s impending ascent into the digital realm, writ large with logarithmic graphs from Ray Kurzweil and...

Health & Medicine

Remember all those SF movies where it takes suspended animation to travel to a distant planet or galaxy?

Humor

I swear the talking GPS screamed when our geekmobile banked a hard left straight through the red light as we careened into the parking lot of the...

An interview with AI scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber (pronounced Yirgan Shmidhoobuh) is one of the world's most interesting minds in artificial intelligence.

Dr. Hugo de Garis, the father of evolvable hardware and a redoubtable AI researcher, moved to China several years ago, and is now leading the...

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