What Science Fiction Got Right About AI And What We Can Learn From It
Three startlingly relevant science fiction stories predict today's most pressing questions about AI's role in life and work.
The Erasing of American Science
The government has funded science and then largely left well enough alone. Scientific agencies have been staffed by ...
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'Game changing' release of Type Ia Supernovae data may hold key to the history of the Universe
A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...
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The early minds behind the machine: Founders of artificial intelligence
Turing's 1950 paper didn't just pose the profound question, "Can machines think?". It ignited a quest to build AI technology ...
Are We Alone? Scientists Uncover Evidence That Intelligence May Be Inevitable
For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...
New theory ups the odds that intelligent aliens exist
“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...
Release of Type Ia supernovae data may hold key to the history of the universe
A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...
Researchers led by University of Washington Nobel winner achieve a scientific breakthrough
A team from the University of Washington led by Nobel laureate David Baker is using artificial intelligence to design ...