Moravec‘s Paradox

Elon Musk expects to begin planting chips into human brains as early as next year, Business Insider reports. The Tesla CEO revealed the plans during a livestream earlier this week, stating that his neurotechnology startup Neuralink hopes to have its first hu…

The startup unveiled a sewing machine-like robot used to implant ultrafine flexible electrodes deep into the brain to detect neuron activity, during an event in San Francisco yesterday evening. We told you so: It pretty much went as wed predicted. (You can r…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The Rubik's Cube is a puzzle challenging people to create six sides of a single colour An artificial intelligence system created by researchers at the University of California has solved the Rubik's Cube in a fracti…

Climbing Robot, Programming and Programming Languages, Media Player, and Burnout Shops NASA Climbing Robot -- a four-limbed robot named LEMUR (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot) can scale rock walls, gripping with hundreds of tiny fishhooks in each of…

Somehow Jonathan Coulton ended up with a surprisingly relevant dystopian scifi fantasy -- in two different mediums. "I'm very proud of this album, and it says a lot of things that are close to my heart," Coulton said Friday. But first some background: if you …

Over the past week or so, one celebrity after another has stepped up to offer their take on nailing the Bottle Cap Challenge. I thought Mariah Carey’s was particularly funny, as she used one of her signature high notes to seemingly de-cap a bottle. Regular pe…

NASA engineers are working on a new fleet of robots that could be used to explore cliffs, polar caps, and other difficult spots on Mars and other planets in the future. Engineers recently designed a four-limbed robot called Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utilit…

What do the young, ultra-smart students at MITs Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) think about when theyre not hard at work? It turns out that its much the same stuff that similarly aged people everywhere think about: namely, th…

0 with 0 posters participating This video shows sample hands from Pluribus's experiment against professional poker players. Cards are turned face up to make it easier to see Pluribus's strategy. Courtesy of Carnegie-Mellon University. Poker-playing AIs typi…

Poker requires a skill that has always seemed uniquely human: the ability to be devious. To win, players must analyze how their opponents are playing and then trick them into handing over their chips. Such cunning, of course, comes pretty naturally to people.…