As part of the event, a Turing test was held in Latvia for the first time to examine whether participants could distinguish between answers generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and those prepared ...

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 ...

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

AI is furthering the war on reality — one that reality looks to be losing, with no obvious reason for optimism in sight. AI-driven strangenesses like this fable merely highlight the need for all of us ...

2020 was a tough time for any movie to be released, so you may have missed this sci-fi flick from 2020 featuring a star from ...

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 ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements?

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 ...

Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly ...

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

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