When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Gombe Stream in 1960, she carried neither a doctoral degree nor conventional scientific training. What she possessed was something far more useful: the ...

“Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings. This discussion will offer a novel, unified perspective on both, as described in Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ new book, What Is ...

Lesson 1: Humans Must Be in Control Of all the dreams about artificial intelligence, none seduces Silicon Valley luminaries more completely than the vision of a human-less future where machines ...

Until now, intelligence has been measured by a mixture of information processing capacity (reasoning, deduction, ordering, prediction, decoding, comprehension ...

NEW ORLEANS —As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes a tool for both cyber and physical security, the question at hand for security providers is not whether they can replace human beings ...

Overexcitement and activity in a highly intelligent person's brain can often be risk factors for mental health disorders and psychological struggles later in life, according to a study from ...

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 ...

Everyone is talking about intelligent agents these days, but I have to admit I’m not totally convinced. The whole world is raving about how important and unique these things are, and I’m just not sold ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...