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Computer science produces popular headlines about robots and gadgets. But its most complicated and meaningful questions aren't going to make it to pop sci publications...
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A computer just made a genuine scientific discovery. But it's creators are somewhat overselling it when they imply that it's an entity with a scientific mind.
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To some, Ray Kurzweil will always be a tech prophet , and they're prepared to cherry-pick his track record to sell that belief.
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Tech evangelists seem really worried about making friends with robots and forgetting that we can always override their programming.
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Online advertisers are starting to cross into downright stalkerish behavior...
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How could it be harder to lie online if you can hide your identity? Well, the internet never forgets a fib...
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No matter how tamed the web of the future will be, it will always have its wild, adults-only parts.
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Transhumanism is a common theme in comic books. But which one of the scenarios they present has the most scientific merit?
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Michio Kaku talks quantum computing at Big Think. It doesn't go well. It doesn't go well at all.
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Newspapers are still on the warpath against bloggers and it's not working out for them.
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Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.
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"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"
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There's a reason why we can see and understand things robots can't, and that reason might be a cluster of neurons known as V4.
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Watson can easily win a trivia contest, but it needs to play anyway to learn how to talk to humans.
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Time gives the Singularity and its prophet the kid glove treatment, glossing over the scientific and technical issues with a wave of starry eyed credulity.
