Even if UDC did not support the Solicitor General’s argument that “the functions themselves are the same procedures which a human being would perform in working the same computation,” there remains ...

Scientists conducting basic research at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are examining how to build characteristics into a robotic system to improve human-nonhuman teaming.

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There have never been more than a couple hundred electrodes in a human brain at once. When it comes to vision, that equals a super low-res image. The Neuralink team threw out the number “one million ...

Some people say computers are here to stay and others aren’t so sure. Adam Lisagor and Roxana Altamirano are the people who say they are here to stay and are sure. How sure? So sure that they videoed ...

A brain computer interface (BCI) is a neural device that translates a person’s brain activity into external responses or directives. For example, a BCI can allow someone who is paralyzed to direct a ...

Elon Musk's Neuralink showed off its technology allowing a monkey to play video games with its mind. Scientists have been able to get monkeys to control computer cursors via neural interfaces since ...

The fictional form of the mental steps doctrine is inapplicable to digital computers and computer-implemented inventions for several reasons. First, prior to the widespread usage of the general ...

Is it possible to upload the consciousness of your mind into a computer? – Amreen, age 15, New Delhi, India The concept, cool yet maybe a little creepy, is known as mind uploading. Think of it as a ...