SINGAPORE, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- What's next for artificial intelligence (AI)? For Stephen Smith, a senior U.S. robotics researcher, the answer may lie in the way humans learn: lifelong learning.

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 ...

The future of AI points toward systems that are more general, adaptive, and integrated. Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, refers to AI that can perform a wide range of intellectual tasks at ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

A study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical for ...

In the often abstract, occasionally esoteric world of artificial intelligence research, it’s rare to see a philosophical disagreement surface so publicly – and so bluntly. Yet that’s exactly what ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands. Together, they enabled the development of tools, the rise of complex ...