Moravec‘s Paradox

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.…

NASA is no stranger to building robots, having created ones that are currently exploring Mars, traveling to the International Space Station and ones that look like inflatable "aliens." But now the space agency is working on robots that are capable of doing m…

Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese About this Episode Episode 91 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Mazin Gilbert from AT&T Labs about the nature of intelligence and why we have so much trouble defining it. Listen to this epi…

Artificial intelligences long, slow rise as the next big thing in tech continues to pull in cash, even as investors are forced to wait for their bets to pay off. Case in point: AI startup Nodes $16 million in funding from the likes of Mark Cuban and actor Wi…

Space is a perfect way to introduce kids to the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), especially when they can pretend to be Martian astronauts in their spare time. A new series from PLAYMOBIL does just that, encouraging childr…