“There are things that should not be done … I don’t see the difference between things that people shouldn’t do and things that computers shouldn’t do. What should not be done is to allow computers to ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE. By Max Bennett. Mariner Books. 432 pages. $35. Ever wonder how Homo sapiens got so smart? How come we developed actual language when all the other animals didn’t? How ...

The explosive growth in artificial intelligence in recent years — crowned with the meteoric rise of generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT — has seen the technology take on many tasks that, formerly, ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

As preparation for my upcoming series of interviews for Newsweek with the protagonists and practitioners of AI, I have been consuming a plethora of sources that examine the nature and origin of human ...

While it’s making headlines today, and deservedly so, artificial intelligence—the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence—has deep ...

Ever wonder how Homo sapiens got so smart? How come we developed actual language when all the other animals didn’t? How about what first made a nematode turn its body in a different direction? Or… ...