For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

Evolve: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Technologies to Enable Superhuman Capabilities” by ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

AI pioneer Yann LeCun rejects superintelligence hype, arguing today’s AI amplifies human knowledge but still can’t match our real-world understanding.

Fossil records and archaeological findings suggest a correlation between the two, but they do not yet provide definitive proof that the evolution of the brain and hands was directly linked in a ...

For generations, our education system has been built on a simple formula: Learn the rules, master the mechanics, memorize the facts. Go to school, get the information, then go out and apply it in the ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...