When Alan Turing asked in 1950, “Can machines think?“, he was not trying to settle a philosophical argument. He was trying to ...

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In 1843, Ada Lovelace published notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, outlining how a machine could follow ...

The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

Yoshua Bengio pushed back against suggestions that India should sidestep the global race to build large models ...

But knowledge gives us power—to separate facts from fears, speculation from reality, and worst-case scenarios from more likely outcomes. And this is my topic for today. What we know about AI, what ...

IN 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence (AI) to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the ...

History loves to tell us about great minds, but some people weren't just smart - they were living in a different century ...

One of the problems with the study of consciousness is the lack of a universally accepted operational definition. Scientist René Descartes famously proposed the idea of cogito ergo sum (“I think, ...

Popular paperbacks are being translated with the help of machines, raising anxiety among professionals in the field.

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

I should begin with a confession: this letter was written by an artificial intelligence.