A skeptic’s guide to humanoid-robot videos
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What will AI mean for economic inequality?
Prominent AI researchers expect the arrival of artificial general intelligence anywhere between “the next couple…
Ray Kurzweil: Technology will let us fully realize our humanity
By the end of this decade, AI will likely surpass humans at all cognitive tasks,…
This designer creates magic from everyday materials
Around 2012, at a bakery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Skylar Tibbits noticed someone wearing a shirt…
The Download: living for longer, and sex in the age of AI
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Maybe you will be able to live past 122
The UK’s Office of National Statistics has an online life expectancy calculator. Enter your age…
AI and the future of sex
The power of pornography doesn’t lie in arousal but in questions. What is obscene? What…
Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology
Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong…
Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives
The other day I idly opened TikTok to find a video of a young woman…
We finally have a definition for open-source AI
Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what it…