When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?

A new set of chips shows a lot of promise in drastically reducing the vast amount of energy used by artificial neural networks.

Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.

Some computer scientists are so eager to work work quantum computers, they created a new language to make working with quantum circuits easier.

EU's latest idea for making the web forget you and your embarrassing posts? Set all data to self-destruct.

Computers respect the letter of the law, but they can't understand the spirit. That's why they're terrible at real world policing.

In the tech world, dissing someone's tech stack is a great way to start a small holy war. And Jeff Atwood did just that on his blog.

How a joke in poor taste exploded into an ever-escalating firestorm of recriminations and tit-for-tats.

Big Think's informative and educational Q&A feature once again produces answers that fail to inform or educate.

A widely covered article about math confuses readers by equating volume of proof and code with quality of proof and code to imply that computers will take over math as a discipline.

If you're a Silicon Valley founder without a new idea, you can always just steal and existing one and paper over it with buzzwords, as David Gelernter demonstrates...

If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...

Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.

Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.

Could alien AI be the dominant life form in the universe instead of its organic creators?