O ne spring morning in Tucson, Arizona, in 1994, an unknown philosopher named David Chalmers got up to give a talk on consciousness , by which he meant the feeling of being inside your head, looking o
The Daily Beast I first read José Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses more than thirty years ago. I still remember how disappointed I was by this cantankerous book. I’d read other works by Orte
Is ChatGPT Down? Second “Major Outage” of Week Hits Thousands A major outage shut a range of users across the world out of ChatGPT - but OpenAI now says it's operational once more. Aaron Drapkin - 6 h
Theater Review Analyzing the Moves of a King The Machine Hadley Fraser as the chess player Garry Kasparov in this play at Park Avenue Armory. Credit... Bryan Thomas for The New York Times In “The Mach
Introduction "As our worlds become smarter, and get to know us better and better," writes cognitive scientist Andy Clark, "it becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begi
Your friendly neighborhood cyborg cop, RoboCop, is back. You may have already seen the new movie remake of the 1987 classic. Thinking back on the original movie, as a kid, I felt it offered a depressi
Published 2 December 2014 comments Share page About sharing Media caption, Stephen Hawking: "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded" By Rory Cel
Introduction Virtual reality. Simulation rides. Home theater. 3‐D IMAX films. State‐of‐the‐art video conferencing. Computers that “talk.” Although these emerging technologies are different in a number of ways, each of them (and many others) is designed to give the user a type of mediated experience…
It is always fun, and sometimes worrying, to see imagination come to life. I was on a panel last year at UC Berkeley around robotics and law. We talked about some of the conundrums robots and artifici
Media Platforms Design Team You've said in the past that IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer, Watson, isn't deserving of the term artificial intelligence. Why? Well, artificial intelligence is a slippery
Scientists have begun what they say will be a century-long study of the effects of artificial intelligence on society, including on the economy, war and crime, officials at Stanford University announc
The idea that computers are people has a long and storied history. It goes back to the very origins of computers, and even from before. There's always been a question about whether a program is someth