Science fiction writers who really research AI can come away with some great insights.

SETI is thinking about how to detect and talk to alien computers instead of just alien beings. And that's a lot harder than it sounds.

A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.

The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.

The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...

Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.

Machine vision still has a long way to go before it can do something as simple as identify objects at a slight angle.

Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.

Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...

Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?

Defining artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, both philosophically and mathematically. So it's little wonder some people interested in AI want to take some shortcuts...

Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.

A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.

Small, simple robots are making amazing leaps and bounds in evolving behavior similar to that of living things. But why? And how?