Cognitive Astrobiology
o here’s a cool combination of fields: neuroscience and astrobiology. Let’s call it “cognitive astrobiology.”…
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Intelligence
Will Artificial Intelligence Fall in Love?
n a few months, millions of viewers will return to Westworld, the HBO original series about artificially intelligent androids inhabiting a Western theme park. The show, based on a 1973…
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Reverse Engineering the Brain
Can we learn everything about the brain by studying individual brain cells?
It started with a simple equation. In 1980, a mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot working for IBM plotted the…
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The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part III: Flowers for Algernon
In Part II of this series, we considered artificial intelligent in the context of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel and Stanley Kubrik’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Space Odyssey, intelligence…
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The Turing Test: Is that Human or Machine?
I propose to consider the following question, ‘Can machines think?’
Thus begins Alan Turing’s paper “Computing machinery and intelligence.” It’s 1950 England, and the world’s first computer is being used…
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