Gresham Professor Richard Susskind asks and aims to answer; What Will Happen When A.I and the Internet Meet The Professions? Two futures are outlined for…
Will progress in Artificial Intelligence provide humanity with a boost of unprecedented strength to realize a better future, or could it present a threat to…
In this TED talk with Maurice Conti, we are shown how computers will improve our ability to think and imagine. How robotic systems can come…
This panel discussion on artificial intelligence was held at Slush 2016. Which brought together people from more than half of the world’s countries to the…
Cambridge University put together this short documentary on whether robots should feel pain. It's a feeling that most would describe as being unpleasant, both physically…
Stephen Hawking helps to launch Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Artificial intelligence has the power to eradicate poverty and disease or hasten the end…
Deep Mind, the artificial intelligence that Google's parent company Alphabet is developing, can now learn new stuff by analyzing events that are already in its…
Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris — and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build…
The march of tech-driven disruption is now a sprint, one that’s accelerating in an astonishing array of fields. Finance, manufacturing, media, entertainment, sports, education, energy,…
We're on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity — and it's not human. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google,…
As technology rapidly progresses, some proponents of artificial intelligence believe that it will help solve complex social challenges and offer immortality via virtual humans. But…
In a paper published in Nature on 28th January 2016, we describe a new approach to computer Go. This is the first time ever that…
There are some amazing robots roving the surface of Mars. However, they are heavily dependent on their human operators. But what if we could provide…
This panel discussion featured Murray Shanahan, Anders Sandberg, Stephen Minger, and David Wood, answering questions from the audience, at the close of the event "State…
Two technologies which use deep learning techniques to help machines to see and recognise their location and surroundings could be used for the development of…
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark about the foundations of science, our current understanding of…
Interview with renowned author Vernor Vinge - about the Technological Singularity, ways to think about it, strategic forecasting, future studies, and risk. Specific Topics: The…
The scientist Selmer Bringsjord have performed an experiment that in a way indicates robots to be self-aware. Selmer has programmed three robots with information that…
UC Berkeley researchers have developed algorithms that enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error using a process that more closely approximates the…
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The extraordinary, wonderful, and terrifying implications of computers that can…