The world does not have an answer yet to what would happen to humanity if machines start 'thinking', UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell said at the NDTV Ind.AI Summit today.

Now, what makes it complicated is that the wealth may be created in some countries (but) jobs lost in another country. A global redistribution (plan) is right now out of sight, he told Moneycontrol in ...

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

The world’s most consequential artificial intelligence research is being conducted by a strikingly small circle of scientists ...

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 ...

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

As a genre, sci-fi is full of memorable and acclaimed classics, but movies like The Matrix and Wall-E go beyond, thanks to their impeccable execution.

Being wildlife enthusiasts and bird watchers we took a river “safari” during a recent family trip to Bentota. We were ...

Tasked with stocking a vending machine, Claude did not demonstrate any particular acuity for running a business.

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

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 ...

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, ...