Thomas Hornigold
Redefining artificial intelligence: It could work more like a ‘search engine’ than a human brain
With respect to AI, [engineer Eric] Drexler believes our view of an artificial intelligence as a single “agent” that acts ...
After dodging a ban, what’s in store for gene drives in 2019?
With gene drive techniques, we could—perhaps rapidly and inexpensively—wipe out malaria’s hosts for good, and consign it to the list ...
Augmented memory: This researcher wants to record every minute of his life
If we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and our experiences, how much of ourselves do we ...
Self-driving cars and life or death decisions: Who gets to define morality for these machines?
You’re driving along the highway when, suddenly, a person darts out across the busy road. There’s speeding traffic all around ...
Cross-country road trip gave AI a chance to write a novel—the result was a bit ‘surreal’
Last year, a novelist went on a road trip across the USA. The trip was an attempt to emulate Jack ...
Nanofabrication: Technology to manufacture almost anything
James Burke has a vision for the future. He believes that by the middle of this century, perhaps as early as ...
Navigating the ‘promise and peril’ of bioengineering
We’re standing on the threshold of extraordinary capability in synthetic biology. CRISPR-Cas9, the genome editing technique discovered in 2014, is ...