When considering the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems, there are at least two different approaches. One approach asks: How likely is it that current AI systems are conscious – and ...

Stephen M. Younger is a nuclear physicist and was until recently the senior associate director for national security at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where his job was to ensure the ...

Part one: The long, hard road to today. The story of Prometheus ; The First Age: language and fire ; The Second Age: agriculture and cities ; The Third Age: writing and wheels ; The Fourth Age: robots ...

In his new book A World Appears, the journalist explores the mysteries of the human brain - and whether computers could ever catch up ...

The human brain is the most complex information integrator known in the universe. With 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between them, the brain gives us our rich subjective experiences ...