Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Humans have pondered this question since the times of the ancient Greeks, and the Myth of bronze automaton Talos — forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in ...

AI is likely to mirror human minds because it is created by human minds to mimic human intelligence. The premise of this post on the machine “unconscious” is that AI mirrors aspects of the human ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell sarcastic ...

Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

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