‘There will be no robo-apocalypse’: Why AI is no match for human creativity and ingenuity

‘There will be no robo-apocalypse’: Why AI is no match for human creativity and ingenuity

Herbert Roitblat | 
Improvements in machine intelligence will not lead to runaway machine-led revolutions. They may change the kind of jobs that people ...
Politics, ideology and values shape science at nearly every stage, from deciding what phenomena to research to how to talk about results

Politics, ideology and values shape science at nearly every stage, from deciding what phenomena to research to how to talk about results

Taylor Dotson | 
Science has always been political. The science policy scholar Daniel Sarewitz subsumes the idea that scientific research is politically neutral ...
Exploring the mystery of consciousness: Is it everywhere in nature?

Exploring the mystery of consciousness: Is it everywhere in nature?

Christof Koch | 
Accounting for the nature of consciousness appears elusive, with many claiming that it cannot be defined at all, yet defining ...
‘Tip-of-the-tongue’ phenomenon: Does it signal cognitive decline and dementia?

‘Tip-of-the-tongue’ phenomenon: Does it signal cognitive decline and dementia?

Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz | 
[A] person is certain she knows the word she is searching for. It may seem as if the AWOL term ...
Contemplating human extinction

Contemplating human extinction

Thomas Moynihan | 
Whether designer pathogen or malicious AI, we now recognize many ways to die. But when did people first start actually ...
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Viewpoint: Don’t waste your money on banking your baby’s umbilical cord blood

Mikkael Sekeres | 
[I]n the U.S., the practice of storing umbilical cord blood is steadily on the rise. Banking cord blood in case a ...
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Number instinct: Numerical ability is deeply rooted in our shared animal evolution

Andreas Nieder | 
Considering the multitude of situations in which we humans use numerical information, life without numbers is inconceivable. But what was ...
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Do bilinguals have a lower risk of developing dementia?

Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz | 
If the benefits of being bilingual spill over to other aspects of cognition, then we would expect to see a ...
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